South East
Ashdown Forest, East Sussex: AA Milne
‘In that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing’ KEY DATA Terrain: Heathland Starting point: Gills Lap Car Park, TN22 3JD Distance: 5.5 km (3.4 miles) Walking time: 1 hr 42 mins OS Map: OS Explorer 135 Ashdown Forest. Also online at https://explore.osmaps.com/route/10731600/ashdown-forest-east-sussex-aa-milne?lat=51.077331&lon=0.092004&zoom=14.1415&style=Leisure&type=2d Facilities: None […]
Chawton Cottage, Hampshire: Jane Austen
‘Our Chawton home, how much we find Already in it to our mind; And how convinced that when complete It will all other houses beat That ever have been made or mended With rooms concise or rooms distended’ KEY DATA Terrain: flat but potentially muddy across fields Starting point: Jane Austen House Museum, GU34 1SD […]
Inspiring Places: Oxford, Oxfordshire
‘Sweet city with her dreaming spires’ WALK DATA Distance: 5.4km (3.4 miles) Walk Time: 1hr 24 mins Start & finish: The Eagle & Child pub, 49 St Giles, OX1 3LU (the pub was purchased in Oct 2023 by The Ellison Institute of Technology, and they have promised to ‘refurbish and reopen the iconic venue’.) Map: Can […]
Dover Beach, Kent: Matthew Arnold
‘You hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back and fling At their return, up the high strand’ What is it? Dover Beach is not necessarily where you’d choose to take the family for a day out. The harbour area itself is rather overwhelmed by the cross-channel ferry business. And, horror of […]
Broadstairs, Kent: Charles Dickens
‘You cannot think how delightful and fresh the place is and how good the walks’ KEY DATA Terrain: paved Starting point: Broadstairs Harbour Car Park, CT10 1EU Distance: 1.4 km (0.9 miles) Walking time: 25 mins (15 if you’re Dickens-speed) Map: Can be found online at: https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/route/9633303/Broadstairs-Kent-Charles-Dickens Facilities: All CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) The life and works […]
Rodmell, South Downs, East Sussex: Virginia Woolf
‘It will be our address for ever and ever’ ‘’Why not stay here forever and ever enjoying this immortal rhythm, in which both eye and soul are at rest?’ The inspiration for this walk…Orlando (1918) Sometimes a performance and a moment can transform your appreciation of a novel; and just such a thing happened to […]
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