Walking and the Virus – Latest Advice from The Ramblers

Coronavirus – the latest Ramblers advice for supporters, members and volunteers 30 June 2020 We are reviewing our guidance regularly in response to the latest government advice. Our priority is to protect the health of our members, volunteers and staff and to help suppress the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The easing of lockdown measures

Pleased to welcome you back — Friends of the Ullswater Way Blog

https://video.wordpress.com/embed/3eHbXYgI?hd=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=0&loop=0 Thanks to everyone who has stayed at home during the last few months. We are pleased that we are now able to welcome visitors back to the Ullswater Valley but to protect our countryside and those who live and work here we need everyone to follow some simple guidelines. Countryside Code Respect other people

Diary of a Lone Litter Picker – in the time of Corona — Sophie Neville

Before Lockdown, I was cleaning this section of the Solent shore on a daily basis, mainly collecting plastic pollution that had blown in or been deposited by the tides. Being isolated and difficult to reach, and yet near my home, it seemed a good place to continue taking exercise with my rescue dog, using a […]

Welcome: The Guarding Sacred Sites Network — The Heritage Journal

We’re pleased to report that there is a new player in the site guardian arena. A new group has been formed to look after several sites on the Derbyshire Moors. We welcome GSSN, the Guarding Sacred Sites Network, who introduce themselves in the guest post below. We look forward to hearing good things about their […]

Walking the old railway at Kirkby Stephen

One of the loveliest short walks from Kirkby Stephen is along what was once a stretch of the line of the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway, devised in the 1850s to take coke over Stainmore from the North-East coalfields to the iron furnaces of Furness. The railway line closed around fifty years ago, and