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Hiking Trail · Merseyside
Liverpool Docks walk
recommended route Difficulty easy Open
Distance 5.4 km
Duration 1:20 h
Ascent 31 m
Descent 30 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring Liverpool's docks and maritime past

4.8
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17 entries

The wild moorland of Bodmin might appear bleak and inhospitable but look more closely to discover over five thousand years of human occupation.

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Hiking Trail · North West England
Victorian Manchester city walk
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 5.2 km
Duration 1:18 h
Ascent 25 m
Descent 34 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring Victorian Manchester

4.2
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Hiking Trail · South West England
Bristol slave trade
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 2.7 km
Duration 0:42 h
Ascent 27 m
Descent 4 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring Bristol's links with slavery

4
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Restroom · Cornwall National Landscape
Stop 16. Minions village.
Cornwall National Landscape
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As you walk around the village, notice that most of the cottages are built from granite extracted ...

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Hiking Trail · North West England
Saddleworth Moor, South Pennines
recommended route Difficulty moderate
Distance 9.9 km
Duration 2:41 h
Ascent 198 m
Descent 221 m

A Discovering Britain walk across Saddleworth Moor in the South Pennines

4.5
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Hiking Trail · Central England and the Midlands
Stourbridge Canal, Dudley, West Midlands
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 2.9 km
Duration 0:42 h
Ascent 12 m
Descent 2 m

A Discovering Britain walk along the Stourbridge Canal

5
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recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 5.6 km
Duration 1:23 h
Ascent 37 m
Descent 37 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring the Teifi Valley in the Cambrian Mountains

4
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Hiking Trail · North West England
Inglewhite dairy fields
recommended route Difficulty moderate
Distance 9.8 km
Duration 2:26 h
Ascent 49 m
Descent 49 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring Lancashire's dairy fields

4.4
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Hiking Trail · North Wales
Flint, Dee Estuary, Flintshire
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 6.9 km
Duration 1:42 h
Ascent 16 m
Descent 14 m

A Discovering Britain walk following the River Dee from Flint to Bagillt

4.5
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Hiking Trail · East England
Manningtree to Mistley, Essex
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 4.5 km
Duration 1:10 h
Ascent 35 m
Descent 35 m

A walk inspired by the 17th century East Anglian witch trials

4
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Hiking Trail · North West England
Borrowdale Valley, Lake District
recommended route Difficulty moderate
Distance 12.7 km
Duration 3:53 h
Ascent 294 m
Descent 290 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring the Borrowdale Valley by Derwent Water in the Lake District

4.5
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Hiking Trail · Mid Wales
Mynydd Epynt, Powys
recommended route Difficulty difficult
Distance 19.8 km
Duration 5:26 h
Ascent 431 m
Descent 434 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring the spectacular Sennybridge mountain plateau

4
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Historical Site · South West England
Stop 2. The Pipers standing stones.
South West England
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In the short distance from the car park, you have got a sense of the openness and barrenness of the ...

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Historical Site · South West England
Stop 4. Bumpy ground.
Map / Stop 4. Bumpy ground.
South West England
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Look to your left and right and you can see a distinctive meandering line of small humps that cut ...

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Industry · South West England
11. Granite quarry
South West England
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There is a plentiful supply of easily available stone lying on the moor used by humans since ...

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Bridge · South West England
Stop 5. Footbridge over the railway
Map / Stop 5. Footbridge over the railway
South West England
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By 1830, a railway linking London with Liverpool was under construction.

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Natural Monument · South West England
Stop 9. Cheesewring tor.
South West England
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Local folklore might insist that the Cheesewring was the result of a giants’ rock-throwing contest, ...

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Industry · South West England
Stop 7. Mine shaft.
Map / Stop 7. Mine shaft.
South West England
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This barbed-wire fence protects us from falling into the mineshaft of one of Cornwall’s great mines.

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Industrial Monument · South West England
Stop 13. Remains of train track.
Map / Stop 13. Remains of train track.
South West England
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As demand for both copper ore and granite grew, the mine and quarry companies faced increasing ...

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Historical Site · South West England
Stop 3. The Hurlers stone circle.
South West England
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We are now inside a circle of standing stones called The Hurlers.

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Cave · South West England
Stop 8. Rock cave.
South West England
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This is Daniel Gumb’s cave.

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Industrial Monument · South West England
Stop 14. South Phoenix Mine buildings.
South West England
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All across the moor you’ve probably spotted derelict stone buildings with chimneys.

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Archaeological Site · South West England
Stop 5. Tumulus/Rillaton Barrow.
South West England
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This particularly large example of a ‘barrow’ (a manmade burial mound) is the biggest in Cornwall.

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Archaeological Site · South West England
Stop 10. Stowe's Pound Neolithic Enclosure.
South West England
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From this vantage point we look out across east Cornwall and west Devon.

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Hiking Trail · North West England
Hilbre Island, the Wirral
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 7.4 km
Duration 1:49 h
Ascent 18 m
Descent 16 m

A Discovering Britain trail exploring the tidal islands of Hilbre.

5
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Hiking Trail · North West England
Port Sunlight, the Wirral, Merseyside
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 4.2 km
Duration 1:02 h
Ascent 9 m
Descent 15 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring one of the UK's most radical and attractive garden villages

4.4
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Hiking Trail · South East England
Marlow to Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 7.4 km
Duration 1:48 h
Ascent 10 m
Descent 10 m

A Discovering Britain walk along the River Thames at Marlow

5
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Hiking Trail · North West England
Liverpool city walk
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 5.1 km
Duration 1:19 h
Ascent 29 m
Descent 51 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring Liverpool's diverse immigrant communities

5
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Hiking Trail · South East England
Rye and Winchelsea, East Sussex
recommended route Difficulty moderate
Distance 12 km
Duration 3:01 h
Ascent 61 m
Descent 61 m

A Discovering Britain walk around the historic towns of Rye and Winchelsea

4.6
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Hiking Trail · South East England
Olympic Park, Stratford, East London
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 4 km
Duration 0:59 h
Ascent 6 m
Descent 6 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring Stratford and the Olympic Park

5
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Hiking Trail · South East England
Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire
recommended route Difficulty difficult
Distance 4.5 km
Duration 1:18 h
Ascent 150 m
Descent 157 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring the Uffington White Horse

4.2
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Hiking Trail · South West England
Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
recommended route Difficulty moderate
Distance 9 km
Duration 2:14 h
Ascent 44 m
Descent 41 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring Salisbury Plain

4.8
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Hiking Trail · South East England
Upnor, Hoo Peninsula, North Kent
recommended route Difficulty moderate
Distance 8.2 km
Duration 2:05 h
Ascent 69 m
Descent 69 m

A Discovering Britain trail exploring Kent's Hoo Peninsula.

4.2
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Hiking Trail · Mid Wales
Strata Florida Abbey, Ceredigion
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 1.7 km
Duration 0:26 h
Ascent 21 m
Descent 24 m

A short Discovering Britain walk exploring Strata Florida Abbey

5
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Hiking Trail · South West England
Grimspound, Dartmoor
recommended route Difficulty moderate
Distance 8.4 km
Duration 2:19 h
Ascent 206 m
Descent 201 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring Grimspound, Dartmoor

4.7
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Hiking Trail · North West England
Roman Chester
recommended route Difficulty easy
Distance 4.6 km
Duration 1:10 h
Ascent 21 m
Descent 25 m

Discover why the city of Chester was once at the heart of Roman Britain

4.8
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Bridge · South West England
Stop 10. Saltford Bridge
Map / Stop 10. Saltford Bridge
South West England
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From here look up the hillside to the hedgerow line leading to the saddle between Kelston Round Hill ...

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Industrial Monument · South West England
4. Railway storage yard
Map / 4. Railway storage yard
South West England
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This is the A4, a road that runs all the way from Trafalgar Square in London to Avonmouth via ...

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Historical Site · South West England
Stop 12. Stone remains of cottages
Map / Stop 12. Stone remains of cottages
South West England
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For the men who worked up here on the moor, it was a long journey from their homes to the quarry.

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Bridge · South West England
Stop 9. Riverbank footpath
Map / Stop 9. Riverbank footpath
South West England
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There’s a third change of use here on the riverbank too.

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Museum · Cornwall National Landscape
Stop 15. Houseman's Shaft visitor centre
Map / Stop 15. Houseman's Shaft visitor centre
Cornwall National Landscape
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We’ve now reached the stone-built engine house that has been a constant visual reference point ...

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Marina · The Cotswolds National Landscape
Stop 8. Kelston Lock
Map / Stop 8. Kelston Lock
The Cotswolds National Landscape
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Just as the function of the old railway line was transformed from commerce to leisure, so too has ...

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Industrial Monument · South West England
Stop 6. Information board/bench
Map / Stop 6. Information board/bench
South West England
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Just a few hundred metres from the Great Western Railway is another railway line.

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Industry · South West England
Stop 6. Scattered granite blocks.
Map / Stop 6. Scattered granite blocks.
South West England
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We’ve already heard that granite is formed from solidified magma from deep inside the earth.

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Hiking Trail · South West England
Babbacombe, South Devon
Difficulty moderate
Distance 4.6 km
Duration 1:37 h
Ascent 159 m
Descent 145 m

A Discovering Britain walk along the South West coastal path from Babbacombe in Devon.

5
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Hiking Trail · North West England
Sedbergh, Yorkshire Dales
Difficulty easy
Distance 2.8 km
Duration 0:43 h
Ascent 23 m
Descent 19 m

A Discovering Britain riverside walk to Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales

4
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Hiking Trail · South West England
Stroud, Gloucestershire
Difficulty easy
Distance 5.7 km
Duration 1:23 h
Ascent 13 m
Descent 29 m

A Discovering Britain trail exploring the canals around Stroud, Gloucestershire

4.4
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Hiking Trail · West Wales
Rhossili, Gower
Difficulty moderate
Distance 8.1 km
Duration 2:23 h
Ascent 216 m
Descent 219 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring the Gower AONB at Rhossili and Worm's Head

4.7
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Hiking Trail · South West England
Kelston, Somerset
Difficulty moderate
Distance 9.7 km
Duration 2:41 h
Ascent 224 m
Descent 221 m

A Discovering Britain walk exploring 7000 years of enterprise in the southern Cotswolds

4.8
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