Living close to Winchester, we decide it’s high time we walked the South Downs Way from Eastbourne to Winchester. Armed with the invaluable A-Z walking map and the Trailblazer guide, the long walk sta

■ Distance: 9¼ miles/14.9km ■ Time: 5 ...

This trip is confusing me. One moment I feel like I’m in New Zealand, surrounded by dense tree ferns in a damp and mossy glade above a waterfall. A couple of hours later I’m bombarded by ker-chings of

BACK in 1606, Lord North was unwell. His “lingering consumptive disorder” baffled his doctors. A stay in a remote hunting lodge cadged from a friend hadn’t helped, but on a country ride he came across

In the early 1970s, I relied on a 1961 Austin Cambridge for weekend jaunts along the salty north Norfolk coast. “Relied” is probably the wrong word, as the car wasn’t exactly reliable. I would make a

MOORLAND MYTH AND LEGEND