Short Walks to Curious Places: Exploring 50 of Britain's Ancient Sites, Myths and Legends

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Foreword
Introduction: ‘Curiouser and curiouser’
The Walks
South & West of England
	1. Acorn Antiques: Wistman’s Wood, Dartmoor, Devon
	2. The death of a king: Rufus Stone, New Forest, Hampshire
	3. An ode to autumn: Keats’ walk, Winchester, Hampshire
	4. There’ll never be another yew: Kingley Vale, West Sussex
	5. Cromwell’s ‘small execution’ of the Clubmen: Hambledon Hill, Wiltshire
	6. Gilbert White’s Zig-Zag path: Selborne, Hampshire
	7. The church in the circle: Knowlton Henge, Dorset
	8. Jarman’s garden of delights: Dungeness, Kent
	9. Darwin’s ‘Thinking Path’: Down House, Kent
	10. The city that fell into the sea: Dunwich, Suffolk
	11. Secrets of the shingle: Orford Ness, Suffolk
	12. Ring of ritual: Chanctonbury Ring, West Sussex
Midlands
	13. Green Knight pilgrimage: Lud’s Church, Staffordshire
	14. All round The Wrekin: The Wrekin, Shropshire
	15. A little bit of Old England: Laxton, Nottinghamshire
	16. One man went to Mow: Mow Cop, Cheshire
	17. The oldest castle in England? Richard’s Castle, Herefordshire
	18. Rock of Ages: Bradgate Park, Leicestershire
	19. The hills are alive with the sound of music: Malvern Hills, Worcestershire
	20. Appointment with the Devil: The Stiperstones, Shropshire
	21. ‘Sistine Chapel of the Ice Age’: Creswell Crags, Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire
	22. The Lair of the White Worm: Thor’s Cave, Staffordshire
North of England
	23. Rock idols: Brimham Rocks, Nidderdale, Yorkshire
	24. Crossing the ‘Wet Sahara’: Morecambe Bay, Lancashire
	25. ‘Out on the wily, windy moors’: Brontë Moors, West Yorkshire
	26. Yorkshire’s ghost village: Wharram Percy, Yorkshire Wolds
	27. The bloodiest battle: Towton, Yorkshire
	28. Chasing the Lambton Worm: Penshaw Monument, Tyne & Wear
	29. Kinder surprise: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire
	30. Castles in the air: Alport Castles, Derbyshire
	31. First settlers in Settle: Attermire Caves, Yorkshire Dales
	32. Cumbria’s Grand Canyon: High Cup Nick, Cumbria
	33. A curious encounter with Wainwright: Cautley Spout, Howgill Fells, Cumbria
	34. Monolithic maidens: Long Meg and her Daughters, Cumbria
	35. Land’s End of Yorkshire: Spurn Head, Humberside
	36. From industry to tranquillity: Lathkill Dale, Derbyshire
	37. Finding Cuddy’s Cave: St Cuthbert’s Cave, Northumberland
Wales
	38. Town of Giants: Tre’r Ceiri, Llŷn, North Wales
	39. To the ‘Roman’ Steps: Rhinog Mountains, Snowdonia
	40. Skomer’s seabird city: Skomer, Pembrokeshire Coast
	41. The legend of the Lady of the Lake: Llyn y Fan Fach, Brecon Beacons
	42. ‘The Cure of all Diseases’: St Govan’s Chapel, Pembrokeshire Coast
	43. Source of Stonehenge’s bluestones: Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire
Scotland
	44. ‘Looking into the abyss of time’: Siccar Point, Berwickshire
	45. Columba’s tears: St Columba’s Bay, Iona
	46. Monarch of the glens: Glencoe, Argyll, Highlands
	47. The fabled Table of Skye: The Quiraing, Isle of Skye
	48. Birds and brides in the broch: Mousa Broch, Mousa, Shetland Islands
	49. Catching up with the Hogwarts Express: Glenfinnan Viaduct, Highlands
	50. To the end of the world: Hermaness, Shetland Islands
Further Reading
Index
Acknowledgements