Stark beauty hewn from the slopes

In the hills above Blaenau Ffestiniog lie the remains of RHOSYDD QUARRY . Once a hub of industry, now abandoned and left to decay, it’s a place that echoes with whispers of the past.

Jim Perrin conjures more Eryri magic, folding time on a lesser-known scramble to Wales’ highest peak

■Distance: 6¼ miles/10.1km ■Time: 6 hours ■Grade: ...

The Victorians confused these Shropshire hills with the Alps. How? Why? Trail dons its lederhosen, downs a glühwein and reaches for the Stretton Skyline to find out.

1 C erne Abbas Giant almost lost his ...

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