Literary walks

For those who prefer not to follow the crowd, we reveal some of the best, but relatively undiscovered places to enjoy in the country’s chicest region

In an ordinary county in the English Midlands, one writer found and shared the extra ordinary.

July

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

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

Porth Beach, Newquay, Cornwall TR7 3NH T 01637 876531 W porthbeach.co.uk OPEN 22 March – 31 October Located in a tranquil valley, just a few yards from the golden sands of Porth Beach, this site gives