File photo of the Household Cavalry training on the beach at Holkham.
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Increasing numbers of visitors at to Holkham beach have led to restrictions on horse riding.
The rules - which were introduced last year - mean horses can only be taken onto the beach for several hours in the morning and evening during busy days including weekends and holidays.
A spokesperson for Holkham Estate said it was not their intention to ban horses from the beach.
Holkham said: The timed restrictions for horse access to Holkham Beach, which were introduced last year, will continue this year.
The Mail on Sunday s Sarah Freeman rounds up the best rose gardens to visit in the UK this summer. The list features London s largest rose collection and some regal roses in Devon.
Review: Big Trails Great Britain & Ireland Volumes 1 &2. Edited by Kathy Rogers and Stephen Ross. Published by Vertebrate. £17.99 & £20.00 THE second of these guides to Big Trails in Great Britain and Ireland has just been published by Vertebrate but I felt it best to review both books as together they cover 50 of the best long-distance walks in these countries. Several of the trails are household names – Cleveland Way, Dales Way, Offa’s Dyke Path, Pennine Way, Wainwright’s Coast to Coast and the West Highland Way. However, there are many other lesser known trails that look very exciting for the long distance walker or walking holidays. Amongst these are the Channel Islands Way circumnavigating the five islands of Alderney, Guernsey, Herm, Jersey and Sark a total of 165 kilometres (103 miles) over eight days walking plus travel times between the islands. Also, there are walks around the Isle of Anglesey (201 kilometres – 125 miles), Isle of Arran (103 kilometres –
Review: Big Trails Great Britain & Ireland Volumes 1 &2. Edited by Kathy Rogers and Stephen Ross. Published by Vertebrate. £17.99 & £20.00 THE second of these guides to Big Trails in Great Britain and Ireland has just been published by Vertebrate but I felt it best to review both books as together they cover 50 of the best long-distance walks in these countries. Several of the trails are household names – Cleveland Way, Dales Way, Offa’s Dyke Path, Pennine Way, Wainwright’s Coast to Coast and the West Highland Way. However, there are many other lesser known trails that look very exciting for the long distance walker or walking holidays. Amongst these are the Channel Islands Way circumnavigating the five islands of Alderney, Guernsey, Herm, Jersey and Sark a total of 165 kilometres (103 miles) over eight days walking plus travel times between the islands. Also, there are walks around the Isle of Anglesey (201 kilometres – 125 miles), Isle of Arran (103 kilometres –
1. Under the clouds
I left home in Fife and went to live in Glasgow when I was eighteen. When I think of it now, the distance seems laughably small – forty miles, little more than an hour in the train – but the contrast between a village on the east coast and a city, Scotland’s largest, on the west coast was sharp and exciting. I had a bedsit in a dark street of better-class tenements, with a Polish delicatessen, a dance hall and a cinema just round the corner. Glasgow seemed an infinite place, never to be known completely no matter how many suburban bus terminals you reached or exploratory walks you made. It was 1963. The last trams had run the year before, but the city was still much its old self – smoke-blackened, run-down, Victorian, majestic, tipsy on beer and whisky on a Saturday night, hushed on a Sunday. More than a million people lived there then; forty years later, that figure had almost halved.