Tag: Hiking
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4 Short Walks in the Peak District
I had 4 nights booked in a small self-catering cottage in Chinley, near Chapel-en-le-Frith, slotted in just before the busy half-term week. In the past when I’ve visited the Peaks it’s mainly been to hike the higher ground around Kinder Scout and Bleaklow, but this time I was looking to do some of the smaller…
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The new Moel Famau cafe, that isn’t
This morning, Denbighshire County Council Planning Committee have approved (by 13 votes to 3) plans to build a visitor hub at the start of the main path to Moel Famau in the Clwydian Range & Dee Valley National Landscape (formerly AONB), at the ‘top car park’ at Bwlch Penbarras. The building will include information displays,…
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Bannau Sir Gâr – the Carmarthenshire Fans
At the western end of Bannau Brycheiniog (the Brecon Beacons), in a very quiet corner reached only by minor roads, there’s a glorious ridge where 4 peaks sit majestically above the glacial lakes of Llyn y Fan Fawr and Llyn y Fan Fach. They’re dissected by the county boundary, so that only 2 of the…
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Mitchell’s Fold, Corndon Hill and Lan Fawr
Welsh speakers have a phrase ‘Mwynder Maldwyn’, which translates roughly as ‘the mildness of Montgomeryshire’, to describe the gently rolling hills that cover most of the old county. On the border between Wales and England though, where they merge with the Shropshire Hills near the Stiperstones, they get a bit rougher round the edges, and…
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Wales’ Sustainable Farming Scheme. Pick a side
Last week, the University of Exeter published the results of a survey for North Wales Wildlife Trust about the re-introduction of beavers in Wales. Around 80% were in favour. But the survey also asked people how much they knew about beavers. 10% responded with ‘nothing’, but that hadn’t apparently deterred them taking part in a…
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Coed Llandegla and Cyrn y Brain
Cyrn y Brain is the 2nd highest point (behind Moel y Gamelin) in the Clwydian Range & Dee Valley AONB.
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The Roaches, Staffordshire Peak District
Mention the Peak District, and many people will think of the ‘High Peak’ around Kinder and Bleaklow. But it’s a huge area, stretching into 6 counties, with the Roaches, a prominent gritstone escarpment with interesting rock formations that cram it with character, sitting on its south-western edge. Approaching from Leek, I headed as most people do…
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National Treasures
National Trust areas of Natural Beauty – Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge and Brean Down, Somerset Even though I’ve renewed my membership this week, I have very mixed feelings about the National Trust. I’m not a fan of the over-emphasis on grand houses, mainly because the real story behind many of them, of land grabs and the…
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Malham and Moor
A chance to discover more of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Or that was the plan at least, until a 4 day break was cut to 2 and a bit, with an early exit to get home safely before the forecast 20cm or more of snow had chance to trap me in the narrow cobbled…
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Shropshire Hills AONB
Hiking the Stiperstones and Caer Caradog in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
moel a mynydd - hill & mountain 