Philip Thomas

Inveterate wanderer. Erstwhile writer-of-all-walk @CountryWalking

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…and here’s the proof! #BBCCricket

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Paceman Pat… Cummins
#BBCCricket

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@Bruce_Bucknell @BSG_Geomorph Thanks, Bruce. Glad you enjoyed it.

I can’t help with the usage of dip slope I’m afraid. I’ve come across both, but seem to remember ‘dip’ being used when the Wealden-Artois Anticline was described to me in Geography lessons 15 or so years ago.

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📣Huge news today: Wainwright's #CoastToCoast Walk has been awarded National Trail status.

@NaturalEngland will spend £5.6m upgrading the popular 197-mile route from St Bees Head in Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bay on the @northyorkmoors coast.

Welcome to the @NationalTrails family!

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#OnThisDay in 1884, the cross-dressing townsfolk of Sevenoaks in Kent tear down chains and posts obstructing a popular footpath through Knole Park.

The 1000-strong ‘riotous’ crowd ceremoniously deposit the barriers at path-shutting landowner Lord Sackville’s front door. #OTD

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#OnThisDay 90 years ago, Benny Rothman leads a mass trespass on #KinderScout

Around 500 young ramblers converge on the Peak District's highest ground to demand access rights to Britain's uplands. The trespass was immortalised in Ewan MacColl's folk song 'The Manchester Rambler'.

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#OnThisDay in 1936, the @OrdnanceSurvey built the very first triangulation pillar in a field at Cold Ashby in Northamptonshire. There are now 6,190 across the nation.

Do you have a favourite trig point?

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Walk of the week: The Goring Gap

'You'll largely be following the route tramped by hundreds of eager young walkers on March 25th 1932, all of whom had arrived at Pangbourne aboard the Hiker's Mystery Express...'
#walk1000miles

Route card & OS map👇
https://t.co/uasSdTnGtu

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#OnThisDay 90 years ago, shortly before 10:25am, nearly 2000 'hikers' converge on Platform 3 at Paddington Station to catch the first Hiker’s Mystery Express, leaving smoky London for the clean air of the Chilterns...
https://t.co/5vPUjCekdU

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Is there anywhere with a more gloriously tangled web of footpaths than Coleorton in Leicestershire’s wodge of the National Forest?

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Hints for hiking, courtesy of 1933…

1⃣“Let us first say that hikers’ shoes should be nailed...”
2⃣“Every hiker should be able to read a map. It is really easy...”
3⃣“Hikers usually carry their lunch and leave no litter. At any rate, the good ones don't.”
https://t.co/hPGBDjvB3x

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On Good Friday 1932, two trainloads of hikers left London for an unknown destination. 90 years on, we 'join the great adventure' and retrace their walk.

All aboard The Hiker's Mystery Express with our February issue👇
https://t.co/KKAZfgxGDX

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@AccidentalP Paging @t_unwin.

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Fantastic to meet up with @MaryAnnOchota, author of Hidden Histories, for a walk and landscape archaeology spotting session in the Chilterns this morning.

We couldn't have asked for a crisper autumn day to explore Deacon Hill and the enchantingly ancient Icknield Way.

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@the_pilgrimsway @ChapelDownWines Snap! A path I know very well. Pre-vineyard in winters past, we’d be wearing moon boots made of wet clay by the time we reached the far end.

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@alex_roddie Sass that hoopy @alex_roddie? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.

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#OnThisDay in 1932, Benny Rothman leads a mass trespass on #KinderScout

Around 500 young ramblers converge on the highest ground in the #PeakDistrict to demand access rights to Britain's uplands. The trespass was immortalised in Ewan MacColl's folk song 'The Manchester Rambler'

[Country Walking @countrywalking]

Looking for a #NewYearsResolution? Join the challenge that changes lives one step at a time👇
https://t.co/OFT48pLTBJ

#walk1000miles

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Today is the #WinterSolstice in the UK – the first day of winter❄️

It’s colder, muddier underfoot and daylight hours are fewer. But #winter isn’t all grim for those of us out on foot. What do you relish most about walking in winter?
#WalkAllWinter

📷Simonside Hills

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'We can only guess it looked something like the rousing montage in the final instalment of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy...' 🏔️🔥

The story of Britain's signal summits: read it and walk it with our January issue👇
https://t.co/KKAZfgxGDX