The UK countryside comes alive in spring and these breaks – everything from seal-spotting to cycling and even wine-tasting – make the most of it
Category Archives: countryside
Top 10 UK winter walks – chosen by travel and nature writers
The British countryside is especially dramatic in winter, and ideal for a walk to blow away the Christmas cobwebs. Ten writers choose their favourites – and pubs to thaw your feet in
A decade of award-winning British landscape photography – in pictures
A new book brings together the UK’s greatest landscape photographers, who have captured everything from violent seas to tranquil mountains
10 UK landscape features that you’ve probably never heard of
Do you know what a meol or a zawn is? How about a gryke or a glyder? Here is a topographical tour of Britain, revealing lesser-known landforms and the right words to describe them
The eeriness of the English countryside
Writers and artists have long been fascinated by the idea of an English eerie – ‘the skull beneath the skin of the countryside’. But for a new generation this has nothing to do with hokey supernaturalism – it’s a cultural and political response to contemporary crises and fears
UK days out with myths and legends
The British countryside is steeped in folklore and tales of mystery from down the centuries, turning a rural walk into an adventure through the past. All you need is a map and your imagination
Britain from the Air photography exhibition returns for UK tour
The Royal Geographical Society’s free outdoor exhibition of more than 100 aerial photographs of British landscapes will be shown in four UK cities throughout 2015 and 2016, starting in Leeds on March 12
Julian Worker Travel - A few ideas for your next trip in every direction 