Country Walking

Country Walking Magazine shows you the best of British walks: the biggest views, the hidden gems, the sea cliffs and the mountain summits. All our features come complete with superb writing, inspiring photography and step-by-step instructions so you can follow every footpath yourself. In every issue, you’ll find: - In-depth stories of amazing walks - A booklet of 25 pull-out walks every issue - with OS maps! - Information about hotels, pubs, cafes, tearooms. - Clear, jargon-free tests of walking kit And... every issue our readers tell their walking stories, help us devise new walks and shape the places we go to. If you love walking, this is the magazine for you.

Welcome

IN THIS ISSUE…

The View • SIGHTS | SOUNDS | WONDERS | IDEAS | COOL STUFF

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS MONTH

SPECIAL REPORT Why bus based walking could change your life • Think rural bus services are a disaster? Meet the reader who has convinced us that's not so…

SUDBURY • Replete with stately homes, water meadows and historic buildings famously painted in pink hues, Sudbury and its surrounding villages are everything people adore about rural Suffolk.

All creatures great and small • A daily walk dramatically increases your chance of having an encounter you'll never forget, and reminding yourself we live in a wonderful world - as these 1000-milers attest.

The ones with the Midas touch • Enliven your miles – take on a mini-challenge en route and you might win a money-can't-buy Golden Badger*

New minichallenges • Take part in one of our mini-challenges this month and if we publish it entry you can claim a money-can't-buy Golden Badger with your copy of CW. This month's deadline: 10 October.

LETTER OF THE MONTH The best week of the year

In response to ‘Stile counsel’

Where's Kes? • Every month our favourite spaniel Kes goes walkies somewhere in the issue, and we want him back! Can you help find Kes?

Stuart Maconic • The train now at Platform One is the Pronounceability Trap Special, calling at Berwick, Mousehole, Woolfardisworthy… and Slaithwaite.

Wild blue yonder • We kick off with the most commonly seen colour on the entire planet. The colour of sky, sea, serenity, sadness… and a million songs to accompany your next walk.

Purple haze • Gorgeous and regal, princely and prized – a colour raised in glorious ovation by heather flowers from late summer.

Seeing red • The colour of blood, danger, importance, and a range of hills on which you'll rarely feel more alive.

Plan your trip

Capability brown • There's more to mud than meets the rolling eye…

Our Emerald Isles • It soothes us, refreshes us, emboldens us. And best of all, it's everywhere. A day spent immersed in the colour green is a day when your soul is recharged.

Orange is the new… everything • Brace yourself: autumn is coming, and it's bringing the carotenoids.

Gold in them thar hills • There's no colour associated with greater material lust or geological upheaval than gold – and one unlikely - looking hillside in Snowdonia was absolutely stuffed with it.

White as chalk • Stride out across the famously dazzling cliffs that never fade.

Black magic • Join us in the bewitching Black Mountains on a journey to the heart of darkness in the borderlands of south-east Wales.

Tea break

HEAD TO HEAD Toughing it out • Lightweight and low-impact: meet the two trailblazing waterproofs CW has been trying hard to break over this hot, wet summer…

Tried and tested

Stuff we loved this summer

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