Foot Trails NEW brochure and 2020 walks available now
NEW Foot Trails 2020 brochure and walks are available now! Email enquire@foottrails.co.uk to request your copy.
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Behind the scenes as a new Foot Trail is created
Foot Trails founder Alison Howell receives Honary Degree
Foot Trails Founder is awarded an honary Masters Degree in Business Administration by Solent University for services to business.
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Behind the scenes – creating a new Cotswolds Trail
Behind the scenes Creating a new trail in The Cotswolds The Hay Meadow The January day began cold. Wrapped in multiple layers of clothes and with hats, gloves and a waterproof we pack a flask of hot coffee and set out for The Cotswolds to create a brand new trail. (We being Alison and
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Gift vouchers or gift experiences?
Did you know that we have Foot Trails gift vouchers available to purchase? They make a gorgeous gift for anyone who dreams of walking the English countryside. Please order early, especially if you live overseas. We can also send you digital gift vouchers but we think the real think by post makes a lovely
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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 with us to the next steps (excuse the pun!) for Foot Trails
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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 can walk and dream your way through each page, discovering who Foot Trails are as
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Hidden roman villa in the woods – Creating a new Cotswolds trail
New trail – Winchcombe Royal (Behind the scenes)
The Cotswolds, South West England
Creating trails is hugely enjoyable. It’s something I’ve been part of for 16 years.
Designing experiences that help you, our guests, to get yourself off the beaten track, away from the crowds and deep into rural South West England.
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Interview in the woods – my role at Foot Trails, Alison
Out in the woods over the weekend I am reminded of the amazing beauty in our English countryside at this time of year.
As Foot Trails Founder and CEO I am often asked, what do you do?
Good question.
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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 to the team, here at Foot Trails.
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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 as it does in the fields to a golden hue.
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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 trails through to check for quality and importantly any changes on the ground. Which occur surprisingly often if unchecked.
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