Chicken breeds for new keepers

7 varied routes in England, Scotland and Wales

Sheep are taking centre stage in some inventive Yorkshire businesses, among them afternoon tea with a woolly twist

Many National Trails will claim to offer a variety of landscapes. But with forest, moorland, ridges, beaches, cliffs and one incredibly famous little mountain, the Cleveland Way is quietly chuckling at all of them. Country Walking walked the whole thing to prove it.

Want to bag all four Lake District 3000fters? Tick off Scafell, Scafell Pike, Helvellyn and Skiddaw on this 3-day backpacking route.

Black Redstart, St Mary’s, Scilly, 16 March SOUTH WEST ...

Well, not quite – but it’s true that about 80 per cent of our ocean floor remains unexplored and uncharted. Discovering what our ocean depths look like and what life might be found there is just as ch