Country Walking

Country Walking Magazine shows you the best of British walks: the biggest views, the hidden gems, the sea cliffs and the mountain summits. All our features come complete with superb writing, inspiring photography and step-by-step instructions so you can follow every footpath yourself. In every issue, you’ll find: - In-depth stories of amazing walks - A booklet of 25 pull-out walks every issue - with OS maps! - Information about hotels, pubs, cafes, tearooms. - Clear, jargon-free tests of walking kit And... every issue our readers tell their walking stories, help us devise new walks and shape the places we go to. If you love walking, this is the magazine for you.

The stuff Britain’s made of

IN THIS ISSUE…

Find a great walk near you! • Highlights from the 27 fantastic walks in this issue…

STORIES FROM THE Landscape • A bumper crop of films, songs, words and artworks celebrating the ground we walk on.

THE LEGEND OF NAN

The singing mountain • Nan Shepherd wrote a love letter to the Cairngorms. Jenny Sturgeon has given it a musical voice.

MINI MOVIES, BIG IDEAS • Meet the inspiring winners of the BMC’s Women in Adventure film competition

‘Nature is always changing. You can only capture a moment.’ • Dutch artist Jacques Grégoire has been on some seriously long walks in the footsteps of writers, painters and thinkers…

JACQUES’ WALKING HEROES

NATURE WRITERS… ASSEMBLE!

AND FINALLY…

HAY-ON-WYE • Walk into South Wales’ beautiful Black Mountains from the world’s first-edition ‘book town’, nestled between the border and the River Wye.

The word is…

Benefits in kind • This Mental Health Day, let’s focus on the power of kindness – not least to ourselves – and what great allies a good walk and a good deed make.

How to be kind

Add some spice to your miles! • Every month our #minichallenges add spice to your mile-munching. Here are the latest winners - next time it could be you walking off with a money-can’t-buy Golden Badge!

This month’s challenges! • Spice up your miles by carrying out one of our quests this month, post the result in the Facebook group with its hashtag, and our favourite 20 #minichallenge completers will win a Golden Badge! You have until 5 November for this lot.

Be good to yourself • Treat yourself to the best for less - as challenge partner Rohan extends an exclusive 20% off to #walk1000miles - crowning a month of kind deeds.

Your View

Views in brief

WHERE’S KES? • Every month our favourite spaniel Kes goes walkies somewhere in the issue, and we want him back! Can you help find Kes?

Stuart Maconie • Get me a can of Monster Energy and a frosty beard, for I have been Ghyll Scrambling and am thus now an Adventurer…

Peter Ross • Is there a better place to make a walker feel alive than an amble past the graves of the dearly departed?

THE STUFF BRITAIN’S MADE OF • Britain is home to some of the world’s most varied and beautiful landscapes, and it’s all down to the stuff underfoot. Time to walk, and wonder…

For PEAT’S SAKE • We’re so rich in the black resource which upholsters Britain’s backbone, we might have forgotten how enthralling and globally precious peat is. Yes really.

Three more amazing peaty places

How to walk across peatland

Plan your trip

A clean SLATE • Transformed deep beneath Earth’s surface and now on roofs across the world: meet the rock that’s been on a wild ride.

I must walk on chalkI must walk on chalkI must walk on chalk • Created from several billion life forms. Left over from a tropical sea. Today’s lesson: why England’s chalk downland is our rarest and most precious terrain.

Chalk streams ‘in intensive care’

Three more chalk...