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41 days ago

From Steel City to Cottonopolis: a new walking trail through a post-industrial Peak District

The nostalgic Steel Cotton Rail Trail between Sheffield and Manchester has 14 day-length sections, with walks for urban explorers and summit-bagging hikers alike

The Pride of Cumbria train carried me …

7 months ago

Hiking the Pennine Way 60 years after its creation

The UK’s first national trail was established to help secure a right to roam. To mark its anniversary, our writer takes on a particularly wild section

High on the ridges of the Pennines, somewhere bet…

10 months ago

‘It’s incredible, the place just swarms with birdlife’: inside England’s biggest bird sanctuary

The reserve in Geltsdale in the north Pennines has been expanded by a third after RSPB buys land

It covers more than 50 square kilometres of blanket bog, heath, meadows and woodland and rises from a …

11 months ago

‘We shared a quick sense of humour’: Novelist Alan Garner on Alan Turing, and experiencing time slips in the Pennines

At 90, the author reflects on his friendship with the renowned mathematician, quantum realities and how his grandfather inspired his latest book

Alan Garner is a few days from his 90th birthday when w…

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