A Trip Out

Discover more than fifty individually-curated long country walks, most within easy reach of London #TripOutWalks

[South Downs National Park @sdnpa]

Pancake day AND British Pie Week? 👀

We couldn't let it pass without a mention of that South Downs speciality, the banoffi pie.

First concocted in 1972 at the Hungry Monk (RIP) in the picturesque downland village of Jevington.

Banoffi pancakes, anyone?
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📷 Ania Woodgate

[VisitWiltshire @VisitWiltshire]

A highlight during your visit to Wiltshire is the iconic Avebury Stone Circle, the largest of its kind in the world!

Part of the famous World Heritage Site with Stonehenge, Avebury is open to the public and gives you the chance to get up close to the stones as you explore the surrounding landscape! https://t.co/d0y0Hl3KU2

[A Trip Out @TripOutWalks]

Excellent article in today's Guardian on the health and wellbeing benefits of walking by Jack McNamara of @UEL_News #Walks #walking #UniversityofEastLondon
https://t.co/dkAFdSIUQ2

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Wiltshire Landscape, Eric Ravilious, 1937. The original artwork is in a private collection. #Wiltshire

[South Downs National Park @sdnpa]

Laines (not to be confused with lanes) are open pockets of arable farmland at the foot of Downs (which are actually hills) 🤔 ⠀

📷 Guy Edwards
📍 Wilmington Hill

#SouthDowns

[Happy Hiker - Over 400 free walking routes 💙 @IamHappyHiker]

After years walking in the #YorkshireDales, I have put together a list of what I believe are some of the best walks there. Quick links to the most popular dales, #Wharfedale, #Wensleydale and #Swaledale. Links to exact start points via Google maps too. See https://t.co/VpGr5JFgqN

[A Trip Out @TripOutWalks]

@sdnpa I'm sure there are other examples, but some Sussex dialect words still in use include 'somewhen', meaning sometime, and 'twitten', meaning alleyway.

[A Trip Out @TripOutWalks]

This looks like a fascinating new book from @RobGMacfarlane, who wrote The Old Ways, which we love and referenced in some of our walks.

[A Trip Out @TripOutWalks]

A new 400-mile trail to follow - the Great Chalk Way will link The Wash with the Jurassic Coast, and incorporate several existing long-distance routes. These include the Icknield Way and the Ridgeway, which are featured in the panel for our circular walk from Tring via Invinghoe Beacon. #GreatChalkWay
https://t.co/8rbZClssYi

[The Ridgeway National Trail @TheRidgeway1972]

We’d like to congratulate the Icknield Way Association and Friends of the Ridgeway on the successful launch of the new very old #GreatChalkWay that links the Jurassic Coast in Dorset with the Wash in Norfolk. It’ll be a memorable route!

[Barendina Smedley @fugitiveink]

If you need some original, Norfolk-based uncanny tales to see you through the season of ever-longer nights, do have a look at my collection of 15 stories, "The Lammas Ghosts" — it's available on Amazon, you can order it via shops or through the link in my bio above.

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

The Westbury Horse, Eric Ravilious, 1939. The original artwork is in the collection of @TownerGallery. #Wiltshire

[South Downs National Park @sdnpa]

Have you encountered the mysterious Black Dog of Wilmington?

Local legend speaks of a spectral canine with fiery red eyes roaming Windover Hill near the Long Man.
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📷 Verity Stannard

#SouthDowns #SpookySeason

[A Trip Out @TripOutWalks]

Our Dungeness walk includes a visit to these strange brutalist structures - which served as a very rudimentary form of radar #dungeness #dengesoundmirrors #soundmirrors
https://t.co/RzJ9G72KLY

[Books Landscape Magic @BooksnMagic]

As you approach the Denge sound mirrors through densely wooded paths, across a deep lake, they feel like the remains of a lost civilization. And in a way they are I guess!

[A Trip Out @TripOutWalks]

Weird Walk has published a zine on one of our most-loved ancient sites - Devil's Den in Wiltshire. It features in our trail from Marlborough to Avebury:
https://t.co/4Tpuzo3Zp3 #DevilsDen

[A Trip Out @TripOutWalks]

When we completed our circular walk from Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire a few years ago, we had no idea we'd passed near what looks a fascinating and evocative site - the modern long barrow at All Cannings, which was built by @timdaw. We are yet to visit, but have added a short diversion to the barrow for anyone planning on following our route:
https://t.co/Apg8iIjrLx

[South Downs National Park @sdnpa]

Mount Caburn, as seen from the South Downs Way near Kingston.

📷 James Ratchford

#SouthDowns #FridayFeeling

[A Trip Out @TripOutWalks]

Lovely article by Luke Turner on the @Krankenhausfest micro-festival we attended last week and the connections between music and landscape #krankenhaus #seapower #seapowerband

[Love the South Downs @SouthDownsFans]

This might be the best thing that’s ever happened to me

[A Trip Out @TripOutWalks]

Tomorrow we're off to @Krankenhausfest, a superb micro-festival hosted by @SeaPowerBand, at Muncaster Castle, near Ravenglass. We've done some great walks round there in previous years (some curated by the festival) - including to Burnmoor and Swinside stone circles. Still plotting where to head to tomorrow, if the weather's not too bleak! #krankenhaus #seapower