There was a time when the thought of walking made me shudder.
I grew up in Merstham, a one-pub village in England s south-east that sits on the motorway border between London and Surrey. My school was at the top of a wooded hill, accessible to vehicles only by two narrow country roads. But my school commute, a journey where I was more likely to encounter a bushy-tailed squirrel than another human being, was a little different. A new national network of walking routes will soon connect every town, city and thousands of villages across Britain
Most days after class, I would swap my school shoes for mud-encrusted wellies, watching with envy as my friends were whisked away in their parents warm, dry cars. My mum was working long hours in the city and there were no public buses plying the school s narrow access roads, so I had two options: walk the two-mile bridleway that connected my village to the school; or wait until dinnertime to be picked up. The decision, despite having to tr
Slow Ways wants to verify walking routes in the UK including Pembrokeshire. Photo: https://beta.slowways.org/ The Slow Ways initiative have set the challenge for 2021 to walk all 100,000kms of its identified routes and this includes walks in Pembrokeshire. Slow Ways is an initiative to create a national network of walking routes connecting all of Great Britain’s towns and cities as well as thousands of villages. Using existing paths, ways, trails and roads, people can use Slow Ways routes to walk or wheel between neighbouring places and combine them to create longer distance trips. There are currently over 7,000 ‘slow ways’ stretching for over 100,000km.
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