Full Description
A celebration of the time-honoured art of the pub walk, showcasing our countryside's most treasured pubs and the glorious walking routes that connect them.
Is a walk really a walk without a pub? Ducking into a cosy bar after a hike through beautiful countryside has to be one life's great pleasures, and this guide celebrates both the pubs and the glorious trails that connect them. Pints and Pathways features 50 of the best pub walks in the UK, following spectacular routes all leading towards a snug rural pub, often at the heart of its community. This is a guide that will connect you with a place, its history, and the people who live there.
The 50 walks in this book are suitable for all abilities, and each focus on a pub (or two), with detailed practical information. Walks are described with colourful narrative adding anecdote and intrigue, alongside stunning photography and useful maps. The stories of these paths form an evocative narrative of people and place, and the ways we used to travel through the country - from the old mills of rural Somerset to the canals of the Midlands, the traditional boat-building heartland of the North West and the old fishing communities of Cornwall. Reminiscences of pub owners and patrons are woven in, bringing to life memories of community and landscape.
Illustrated with stunning portraiture and landscape photography, this is a beautiful and characterful guide to the best pub walks in Britain.
Contents
Introduction
How to use this guide
NORTH-WEST
1. Greg's Hut, Cross Fell & The Shepherds Inn Langwathby
2. Black Moss Pot from Stonethwaite & The Langstrath Country Inn
3. Loughrigg Tarn & The Britannia Inn
4. Scafell Pike from Wasdale Head & Wasdale Head Inn
5. Keld & Ravenseat from Tan Hill Inn
6. Ribblehead Viaduct & The Station Inn
7. Great Whernside & The Blue Bell Inn
8. The Ribble Valley & The Inn at Whitewell
9. Hebden Bridge & Pack Horse Inn
10. Sandstone Trail & The Pheasant Inn
NORTH-EAST
11. Holy Island Circular & The Ship Inn
12. Seahouses, Bamburgh Circular & The Olde Ship Inn
13. Craster, Dunstanburgh Castle, Low Newton-by-the-Sea & The Ship Inn
14. Alwin River & The Rose and Thistle
15. The Drake Stone at Harbottle & The Star Inn
16. Greenhaugh Circular & Hollybush Inn
17. Kielder Forest & The Pheasant Inn
18. Blakey Ridge, Rosedale Railway & The Lion Inn
19. Hole of Horcum & The Horseshoe Inn
20. Coxwold, Kilburn White Hose & The Fauconberg
CENTRAL & NORTHERN
21. Edale Circular & The Old Nags Head Pub
22. Chinley & The Old Hall Inn
23. Cauldon & The Yew Tree Inn
24. Tealby Loop & The Kings Head Inn
25. Lincolnshire Wolds & The Bluebell Inn
26. Caer Caradoc & The Royal Oak at Cardington
27. Black Hill & The Bull's Head
28. Slad Valley & The Woolpack Inn
29. Fotheringhay, Elton & The Falcon Inn
30. Avebury, Silbury Hill & The Red Lion
SOUTH-WEST
31. South Stoke Circular & The Packhorse
32. The Melbury Park Estate & The Acorn Inn
33. Worth Matravers, Winspit Quarry & The Square and Compass
34. Dartmoor & Warren House Inn
35. Prawle Head & Pigs Nose Inn
36. St Agnes Beacon & the Driftwood Spars
37. The Serpentine Circular & The Cadgwith Cove Inn
38. Logan Rock, Porth Chapel, Gwennap Head & The Logan Rock Inn
39. St Martin's, Isles of Scilly & The Seven Stones Inn
40. Zennor Head Circular & The Tinner's Arms
SOUTH-EAST
41. Helhoughton, Raynham & Sculthorpe Mill
42. Pin Mill, River Orwell Circular & The Butt & Oyster
43. Devil's Dyke & The Three Blackbirds
44. Hambleden, Pheasants Hill & The Stag & Huntsman
45. Shere & The White Horse
46. Beacon Hill & The Three Horseshoes
47. Firle Beacon & The Ram Inn
48. Birling Gap, Beachy Head & The Tiger Inn
49. Rye & The Playden Oasts Inn
50. Down Wood from Chilham & The White Horse Inn
Acknowledgements
Index
