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Andrew Davies hikes Land’s End to John o’ Groats on Slow Ways

Andrew Davies has always been a traveller, from hitch-hiking around the country and Inter-railing across Europe as a student, to a career of any job that would allow him to live and work somewhere...

“Blisters the size of cats”: a zine on walking from Leeds to Hull

A group of friends walk from Leeds to Hull and capture their experiences through the co-creation of a zine, a small imaginative D.I.Y publication

Bob Marley, Kate Moss and Stormzy: Croydon artist draws portraits of people connected by a Slow Way

Artist and English teacher Jonny Kemp explores the route to Croydon from Crystal Palace, called Crocry, drawing famous people who worked or lived nearby

A tale of two cities: wealth gap neighbourhoods

What is going on when the people at one end of a single route live ten years longer than the people at the other end? Heiba Lamara looks at five Slow Ways that pass...

Our Carlisle to Newcastle walk immortalised in silver talisman rings

What to expect when blazing a new coast-to-coast trail across the North (bog soup!), and how we told the tale in film and silver

Tales: A ‘senseAble’ walk with Deaf-initely Women

We all have one or more of our senses compromised and this walk was devised to enhance all the others. Read how we found different ways to appreciate nature, from framing to counting flowers with nature's rosaries!

‘Tales from a Slow Way,’ Round 2, winners announced!

Last year we launched "Tales from a Slow Way," a community stories project that enabled us to commission creatives and groups to work together to produce original stories situated around Slow Ways walking routes. We're happy to announce we're now able to support a further ten projects!

Hebridean wonders: exploring new places close to home

Scottish island resident and photographer Eilidh Carr uses Slow Ways to discover new beaches, pathways and places of interest in South Uist...

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