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Tales From A Slow Way: Lewes Community FC

Tracing the Lewalf path across the South Downs into Lewes, Fred Garrat-Stanley shines a light on the innovative, community-centred work being done at one of the world’s most progressive non-League football clubs, East Sussex-based Lewes FC

How citizen naturalists use Slow Ways to survey wildlife

What if people walking Slow Ways routes used these pathways as wildlife transects across the country: recording wildlife as they walk and contributing invaluable data to inform the regeneration of our country’s flora and fauna?

Running through forests, walking up mountains

National Walking Month is a time when organisations and individuals collectively highlight the many mental, physical, and social benefits of walking and encourage everyone to walk — wherever they are By Ingrina Shieh This year, National...

Moving forwards together – a coastal walk with Muslim Hikers and a refugee community

Saira joins Muslim Hikers and the refugee community of Napier Friends for a walk along the sea from Folkestone as part of Refugee Week Late this June, I joined Muslim Hikers and the refugee...

Review of the week: a West Highland trek with a view of Fort William

A beautiful route in the west Highlands that mostly follows the West Highland Way until you get into Glen Nevis. I did the whole of this route in 2 different trips - the first time as part of a West Highland Way walk (when it rained A LOT), and the next trip to finish the last part of it, which goes around Cow Hill.

What was Beating the Bounds?

For many people in Britain in times gone by, the village in which you were born was likely to be where you lived and died: you would be baptised, married and buried in the same church.

Building a home for grief in Edale

I learnt that day along the hiking trails of Edale, that grief weighs lighter when held in community, and lighter still when that community is held in nature

Slow Ways along motorways

A stretch of the route encompassed a wooded waterlogged trail that ran adjacent to the M25. I was unsettled, slogging through as big trucks and vans and cars whooshed by in a relentless roaring blur.