Country Walking Magazine shows you the best of British walks: the biggest views, the hidden gems, the sea cliffs and the mountain summits. All our features come complete with superb writing, inspiring photography and step-by-step instructions so you can follow every footpath yourself. In every issue, you’ll find: - In-depth stories of amazing walks - A booklet of 25 pull-out walks every issue - with OS maps! - Information about hotels, pubs, cafes, tearooms. - Clear, jargon-free tests of walking kit And... every issue our readers tell their walking stories, help us devise new walks and shape the places we go to. If you love walking, this is the magazine for you.

Welcome

IN THIS ISSUE…

Find a great walk near you! • Highlights from the 27 fantastic walks in this issue…

Buy your own little patch of WILD

LOVE AND LOSS IN BEAUTIFUL PLACES

Walk into Norfolk’s DEEP HISTORY • A new walking trail will take you along 22 miles of pristine coast - and 850,000 years back in time…

BEACH BEASTS: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DEEP HISTORY COAST

A SONG FOR MOTHER NATURE

40 YEARS OF SCOTLAND’S FAVOURITE TRAIL

THE DAWN OF COVID-PROOF KIT

THE LITTLE BIG PICTURE!

COVER STORY • Kicking off our map issue is a trip down memory lane to covers of the past, because the art isn’t only on the Inside…

MAP READING • Feed your map fascination with these cartography classics.

The hardest names on the map

CONISTON • Who’s for frosted fells and fireside nights on a winter weekend in the Lake District’s sunlit south?

The word is…

JOIN WALKING’S BIGGEST EVER Secret Santa! • Register now to send a gift to – and receive from – a random 1000-miler in the Biggest gift exchange in walking!

SECRET SANTA FAQs

How it went last year • Christmas 2019 was the first time we ever did a #walk1000miles Secret Santa and it went brilliantly! Over 90% of exchanges completed without a hitch and virtually everyone said they’d do it again.

Thanks for the INSPIRATION!

YOUR MAP STORIES • Our maps tell the stories of the world around us, but also the stories of our lives…

L♥VE IS IN THE AIR!

Money-can’t-buy miles! • Every month our #minichallenges add spice to your mile- munching. Here are the latest winners - next time it could be you walking off with a money-can’t-buy Golden Badge!

This month’s challenges!

A monumental ascent!

Your View

WHERE’S KES? • Every month our favourite spaniel Kes goes walkies somewhere in the issue, and we want him back! Can you help find Kes?

Tea break

vote for your OUTDOOR PHOTO OF THE YEAR 2020 • Entry has closed for Outdoor Photo of the Year 2020 - but you can vote now to crown the Readers’ Choice winner.

Stuart Maconie • A pilgrimage to the Suffolk coast brings haunted fishermen, wheeling gulls, and the sounds of Britten and Eno…

10 MAPS EVERY WALKER SHOULD OWN • Works of art and practical tools for adventure, these 10 top maps will whisk you from the summit of Britain to the heart of London. But first, the map we’d choose to be trapped inside forever…

Turn to the Dark Side • Moors, tors and edges in the cradle of the Right to Roam.

Adventure beckons!

England to the extreme • The Jekyll and Hyde of outdoor leisure maps.

LOVE where you live • Want the world’s most prestigious mapping agency to make a map centred on YOUR home? What are you, a king or something? It’ll sure feel like the world’s at your feet…

Mountain, magnified • Britain’s biggest peak, in tiny detail...

The Southern Wild

Urban Legend • It’s hard believe there was ever a time before the London A to Z, but the story of this epic explorer’s guide to one of...