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New rural HQ for Team Foot Trails

Friday 28 September 2018, a mixed group of people gathered on the Fonthill Country Estate in deepest rural Wiltshire (South West England) to celebrate the last decade of Foot Trails, the opening of our new HQ and to look forward

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Hike England – 2019 brochure live

Have you dreamed of walking through the English countryside? You can, with a custom made Foot Trail. Our 2019 brochure is now live and we are open for 2019 bookings. With 55 pages of trails, inspiration, ideas and suggestions you

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Honing observation skills with walking

Surely one of the greatest joys of walking is its ability to hone our observation skills.
I’ve loved being outside all my life, and for the last 17 years that passion has played it’s part in my efforts contributing

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New – Kings of Wessex – Making a trail

Smatterings of frost glistened as David and I packed a rucksack, picked up our boots, Dictaphone, notebook and camera and headed for the Dorset and Somerset borders, with the intent of creating and testing a new trail.

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Walking The Cotswolds

At this time of year the fields of barley (with its long wispy delicate whiskers) and wheat are starting to turn and ripen. Barley changes beautifully from its vibrant green to a light beige. And wheat, standing tall and proudly

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Dorset Royal Chase – New walking trip

It was a small but interesting party who set off keenly on Saturday morning to walk through North Dorset’s spectacular countryside in England.

Julia Killick (CBE) and Lynn Bann are Foot Trails newest volunteer trail guides, responsible for walking our

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A right pea souper

We emerge from our car into a right pea souper. Fog hangs like a white veil across the wintry countryside. Everything looks hazy. Soon fine droplets start clinging to our hair and clothes forming a white layer.

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