Walks for Mind and Spirit - Britain

• CONTENTSIntroduction, contributors, how to use and walk locator mapSOUTH WESTTimeless headland - The Rumps and Pentire Head, CornwallEnchanted forest - Dartmoor, DevonThe power of belief - Abbotsbury, Dorset A pagan arena - Avebury, WiltshireMyth factory - Glastonbury, SomersetArchitectural philosophy - Wells Cathedral, SomersetSOUTH EAST AND LONDONHigh-mindedness and doubt - Tennyson Down, Isle of WightThe pilgrim paradox - St James Way, Winchester Reconnecting with nature - Newton Valence, HampshireSolitude and meditation - Chithurst Monastery, West SussexA shrine to multiculturalism - Brookwood Cemetery, WokingLand art - West Dean Woods , South DownsGardening therapy - Dungeness, KentReligion and politics - Canterbury, KentMeetings with urban trees - LondonNature comes to town - Hampstead Heath, LondonSacred geometry - East LondonEnergy highway - The Ridgeway, OxfordshireWALESSmall acts - Solva to St Davids, PembrokeshirePilgrimage reborn - Penrhys Pilgrimage Way, Cardiff - PenrhysTo be, or not to be, a hermit - Monmouthshire, SE WalesThe work factor - Strata Florida, Mid WalesIdris the giant - Cadair Idris, North WalesSpirituality and poetry - Llŷ n Peninsula, North WalesTHE MIDLANDS AND EAST ANGLIAPicturesque - Wye Valley English music, English landscape - The Southern MalvernsRegeneration at its best - BirminghamThe poet of unhappiness - Wenlock Edge, ShropshireVernacular poetry - Helpston, NottinghamshireDefi ning great literature - The Cambridge BacksConstable country - The Stour Valley, EssexEngland’s Nazareth - Docking to Walsingham, NorfolkThe original freedom walk - Kinder Scout, Peak DistrictRelatable saints - Chester to LichfieldNORTHERN ENGLANDFuelling superstition - Pendle Hill, LancashireFantasy land - Hurst Green, LancashireFamily life - Bempton Cliffs, HumbersideWhose landscape? - Styhead Tarn, Lake DistrictMountain woman - Scafell Pike, Lake DistrictReturn to wilderness - Grizedale Forest, Lake DistrictStretching credulity - Lindisfarne, NorthumberlandMaking sense of the senses - Kielder Water, NorthumberlandImperial pride - Hadrian’s Wall, NorthumberlandSCOTLANDEnlightenment - Pentland Hills, MidlothianWorld peace - Holy Isle, ArranRoyal roots - Dunkeld, Perth and KinrossBlood money - Glencoe, Scottish HighlandsFoundations of conservative thought - Isle of SkyeINDEXPICTURE CREDITS

To add depth to your rambling, seek out Walks for Mind and Spirit, a new book with route ideas spanning everything from pilgrim trails to Buddhist bimbles. Its loop in the Vale of Ewyas is great, combining Black Mountains scenery with a hidden ancient priory.