L is for leith hill

With feet in the sea and head in the clouds, some of Britain’s finest mountains rise offshore – as we discover on the ISLE OF MULL .

■ Distance: 3½ miles/5.5km ■ Time: 7 ...

If you want to climb a mountain, it’ll be tough, right? And there’s no point staying low in the valleys if you’re after a big adventure, right? Actually, wrong on both counts. CW sets out to show that at both high level and low, the Lake District has the power to surprise.

Because Skiddaw and Wast Water aren’t the only walks that defy conventional wisdom in the Lakes…

■ Distance: 6¾ miles/11km ■ Time: 5-6hours ■ ...

Eleven friends of COUNTRY LIFE pen a love letter to their small, yet oh so distinctive patches of the British Isles, from the big skies of the north Norfolk coast to the street art of Belfast, from the glens of Perthshire to the Exe estuary in Devon via the apple orchards of Herefordshire