Two Cotswolds days with fewer villages and better stops
Choose one cluster each day and leave room for the paths between the pictures.
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Places to explore, routes to make your own, and photographs worth keeping.
Tintagel Castle: plan for the coast as well as the ruins
The bridge is one moment in a larger day of paths, stone and sea.
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Sennen Cove: a beach day with a coastal walk on the side
Give the sand most of the day and let the headland provide the change of view.
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Planning a Cornwall cove day around the tide
A good beach plan begins with the way back, then leaves time to enjoy the sand.
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A short West Cornwall break with a smaller driving map
Stay in one corner of the county and let the coast provide enough variety.
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Seven Sisters: choose the walk before the viewpoint
The white cliffs are the view. A clear route and return make the day work.
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Cuckmere Haven for a shorter Sussex coast day
The river and valley give the white cliffs a quieter setting.
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Beachy Head and Birling Gap: a coastal photo walk with limits
White chalk and a small lighthouse make a clear picture; keep the route just as clear.
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Betws-y-coed at river pace
A village day can give Eryri its own kind of scale, without a summit in the schedule.
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Cwm Idwal: choose the valley walk you can finish comfortably
Start with the route description, then let the valley provide the views.
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Blaenau Ffestiniog: give the slate town a day of its own
Start at street level, then choose how much of the slate country to explore.
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Planning a first Yr Wyddfa walk on the Llanberis Path
A popular path still needs a full mountain-day plan.
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