CONTENTS

 

Acknowledgements

Preface

INTRODUCTION >>

PART ONE : WHERE WE ARE 

1     SOUTH WEST ENGLAND

Overview

From the Eden Project in Cornwall, to Totnes, Devon, and Dartmoor

From Dartmoor, to Frome in Somerset, through Bath, to the University of the West of England, and to Bristol

From Bristol to Wales

2    WALES

Overview

From Cardiff to the Brecon Beacons in Powys

From the Brecon Beacons, through Machynlleth, to the Centre for Alternative Technology, and on to Betws y Coed in Conwy

From Betws y Coed, to the Ysbyty Gwynedd in Gwynedd, Menai Bridge on Anglesey, and back again

From Betws y Coed, through Corwen in Denbighshire, to England

3    THE WEST MIDLANDS

Overview

From Shrewsbury in Shropshire, to The Other Place, in Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire

From Stratford-upon-Avon, to Birmingham, and on to Much Wenlock in Shropshire

From Much Wenlock to Lydbury North and Walcot Park, in Shropshire

From Walcot Park, through the Marches, toward Chester

4    NORTH WEST ENGLAND

Overview

From Chester in Cheshire, to Manchester

From Manchester to Maple Farm Nursery, Flyde in Lancashire, on to Blackpool, and back to Liverpool

From Liverpool, the Albert Dock and the International Slavery Museum, to Tebay Services, near Orton in Cumbria, and toward the port of Cairnryan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

PART TWO : WHERE TO GO

5   NORTHERN IRELAND

Overview

From Belfast to Derry,  Drumahoe and Altahullion in County Londonderry, and back again

Around Belfast

The passage to Scotland

6   SCOTLAND

Overview

From Stranraer in Dumfries and Galloway, to Girvan, and the Robert Burns Museum in South Ayrshire, and on to Glasgow

From Glasgow to Edinburgh

From Edinburgh to Dunbar, and Torness, in East Lothian, and the border

7   NORTH EAST ENGLAND

Overview

From Berwick to Lindisfarne, Barter Books in Alnwick, and Walkmill Campsite, in Northumberland

From Walkmill Campsite to Ashington, and North East Organic Growers in Northumberland, and on to Wallsend in North Tyneside, and Newcastle

From Newcastle, to Durham and the Miners’ Hall in Redhills, in County Durham and past Teesside toward North Yorkshire

8   YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER

Overview

From Whitby to Robin Hood Bay, Scarborough and York, in North Yorkshire

From York to Beeston, and Headingley, in Leeds, West Yorkshire

From Headingley to Sheffield in South Yorkshire and back again

From Headlingley toward the East Midlands

PART THREE : HOW TO GET THERE

9    THE EAST MIDLANDS

Overview

Past Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire to Nottingham

From Nottingham to the British Geological Survey in Nottinghamshire, on to Leicester in Leicestershire, and Grantham in Lincolnshire

From Grantham to Lincoln and North Hykeham in Lincolnshire

From North Hykeham to RAF Waddington and on through the Fens toward the East of England

10   THE EAST OF ENGLAND

Overview

From the Fens to King’s Lynn and Norwich in Norfolk

From Norwich to Cambridge in Cambridgeshire

From Cambridge to Chelmsford and Aythorpe Roding in Essex

From Aythorpe Roding to London

11   LONDON

Overview

From Tottenham in Haringey, to Westminster Square in Westminster, the South Bank in Lambeth, Soho in Westminster, and on to North Woolwich in Newham

From North Woolwich to Southwark, the London Eye, and west to Fulham in Hammersmith and Fulham

From Fulham to the City of London and the Palace of Westminster, and toward the South East

12   SOUTH EAST ENGLAND

Overview

From Canterbury in Kent, through Hastings to Brighton in East Sussex

From Brighton to Earthship Brighton and on to Guildford, Surrey

Around Guildford and the journey’s end

CONCLUSION

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX