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Eugene Suggett: Charms of the Peak
Every few years there comes another anniversary of the Kinder Scout trespass, attended by walks, rallies, exhibitions, speeches and like festivity. For the 60th we turned out a pretty good booklet,...
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Eugene Suggett: Oldest inscriptions upon the land
I once heard it said by someone from a tourist-authority that if there had never been any such things as public rights of way, and you were a planner charged with the task of devising from scratch a...
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Eugene Suggett: Meadowsweet, and haycocks dry
Not for the best reasons, National Trails are in the spotlight. There’s one near me: the North Downs Way. Indeed, the house ‘commands a view’, as estate-agents sometimes grandiloquently put it, of the...
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Eugene Suggett: Mustn’t upset the drivers
Sunday 19 August, and a glorious walk in West Surrey. The place, near Godalming, is silently tranquil; having left the field-paths to head to a pub, we are in a country lane, pavementless like most...
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Eugene Suggett: On the Road
The persevering follower of this blog may have gleaned something of its author’s fascination with links between the rural environment and English literature. Many a work contains a path identifiable on...
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High court loss for Bodicote case
The Ramblers has lost a High Court case challenging how footpath diversion orders are approved in England and Wales – but the judgment has helped clarify the law. In what has become known as the...
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Cause for diversion
Every year, hundreds of applications are made to divert footpaths all over England and Wales, and the Ramblers keeps a watchful eye on all of them. But only a few are challenged on the grounds of...
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Eugene Suggett: Eternal soliloquy
“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees/No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds—November!” complained Thomas Hood. Perhaps not the most auspicious of months, then, for embarkation on another...
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Eugene Suggett: Deceits of lapwings
Too many folks eschew the Essex coast. You can do worse than get on a train to Burnham-on-Crouch, and then walk round the Dengie peninsula, perhaps to Bradwell-on-Sea, and from there get a ’bus (check...
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Eugene Suggett: It is solved by walking
Prince Charles on Countryfile lately gave a ringing endorsement of walking as a valuable and thought-provoking activity. ‘Walking is a terribly important thing for me,’ said the heir apparent, ‘I find...
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