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summer walking You are definitely in the right place if you are looking for a good selection of walking guide books. Easy site navigation by location will get you where you want to be quickly. Just click on Bookshop or here to get started. Wherever in the UK you are planning to walk we will give you the best choice of guide books to ensure you find the best routes. You can also find lots of information about walking destinations by clicking Locations, find out about Britain's fantastic long distance walks and our National trails by clicking Trails and also get details of walking festivals.

Walks for Each Season near London

A new second edition of this delightful book has just been published in February 2025. Seize the moment, escape the city and fully experience the beauty of each season. These 26 fabulous walks, all within easy reach of London, showcase each season's highlights, leading you through bluebells in spring, among poppies and wildflower meadows in summer, into the glory of beechwoods in autumn, and to the breathtaking display of a starling murmuration in winter.

Routes are plotted on Ordnance Survey maps alongside clear easy-to-follow directions and each of the walks starts and ends at a train station, so you can discover the seasonal gems of the southeast with ease. For further information click the book cover image.

Cross Cotswold Pathway

A new revised 2024 edition of this Macmillan Way guidebook has just been published. The route covers the cream of Cotswold country, so much of which lies hidden away from the normal visitor. The guide contains detailed route directions divided into three chapters covering all 86 miles. There are 19 double page spreads each with inter-relating text, map, and colour photographs. Clear coloured sketch maps and detailed route-finding instructions make navigation a breeze. Click image for more information.

New Mortimer Trail Guidebook

The Mortimer Trail is a gorgeous 30-mile walking route between Ludlow and Kington which follows a succession of hills and ridges. The Trail passes through forests where tracts of broadleaved woodland give way to coniferous stands and later descends from the high ridges to the waters of the Teme, Lugg, and Arrow rivers, where kingfisher and heron can be seen. The guidebook has been out of print for a year, but now this new edition will make the walk more enjoyable and easier to navigate. There can be few better and less crowded places to walk in Britain than in the Marches through which the Trail passes. Click image for more information.

Oxfordshire Way

Oxfordshire Way Guidebook Great news that a completely new guide to the Oxfordshire Way is now available, written by Nick Moon, who has excellent knowledge and experience of this route since its founding. An attractive full colour guide with OS 1:25,000 scale mapping, this book is now the essential resource for exploring the Oxfordshire Way long distance path. This superb guidebook published by CPRE Oxfordshire provides all the information needed to plan and undertake the walk and also includes twelve circular walks along the route.

For further information about the book, or to purchase from our bookshop price please click here.

Nidderdale Way

Nidderdale Way Walking Guidebook There has not been a guide to the Nidderdale Way in print for a while now, so its three cheers to Rucksack Readers who have just published an excellent new guidebook which ticks all the boxes of what a good walking guidebook should contain.

Nidderdale is perhaps the least known of the Yorkshire Dales valleys. This unique dale has three large reservoirs formed by damming the River Nidd. It boasts impressive natural features such as Brimham Rocks, Guise Cliff and How Stean Gorge. Walking the circular Nidderdale Way is a very enjoyable 4 to 6 day long distance walk.

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Walking in Northumberland
by: Vivienne Crow

Vivienne Crow has won the 2018 Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild award for Best Guidebook. The judges commented on the book: “An eminently competent and trustworthy companion, a good introduction to walking in Northumberland and a welcome new addition to a competitive field.”

We completely agree that this book is an excellent choice to exploring Northumberland on foot. It is well researched with informative and enjoyable well-written text. Vivienne has won awards for her books before and is definitely a master of her craft with a genuine love of the outdoors.

The book, published by Cicerone to their usual high standards, is well illustrated with colour photographs taken by Vivienne and includes Ordnance Survey 1:50000 scale mapping of the 36 walking routes.

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Three River Valley Walks in West Kent
by: Robert Peel

Walkers wanting to explore the long distance paths of Kent have an early Christmas present. A brilliant new book published by Kent Ramblers provides complete route descriptions of three valley paths in west Kent. These are:

Darent Valley Path - 20 miles
Eden Valley Walk - 15 miles
Medway Valley Walk - 28 miles

Previous paper guides for these three walks have long been out of print. Here in one volume is the opportunity to discover their delights and achieve the satisfaction of completing them all.

As well as detailed descriptions of the routes and full-colour mapping at a scale of 1:25,000, the book includes information about the many points of interest and much background material about the geology, geography and history of west Kent. The book is nicely illustrated with plenty of colour photographs. The routes are described in sections and information is provided for planning how best to undertake the walks.

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