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Walking the English county tops

A project to walk to the highest point in each historic county of England and record some thoughts, some practical, some fanciful

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Devon

HIGH WILLHAYS, Dartmoor 22 September 2021 Otherwise known as High Willes. 2,039 feet (621 metres). Weather: perfect walking weather, sun with scudding high clouds, around 17°C. Duration of walk. About 4.5 hours. Artistic endeavour: a Clerihew appropriate to the area. This is the second county top in the project, and I arranged to climb itContinue reading “Devon”

Posted byiainpurvis24th Sep 202128th Sep 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Devon

Cornwall

BROWN WILLY, Bodmin Moor. 31 August 2021. Otherwise known as ‘Bronn Wennili’, ‘Hill of the Swallows’. 1378 feet. Weather: looming dark clouds all day. Duration of walk: About 2.5 hours. Artistic endeavour: a short poem. I parked at the Forestry Commission carpark on Rough Tor Road, at the Northern edge of Bodmin Moor. The pathContinue reading “Cornwall”

Posted byiainpurvis9th Sep 202128th Sep 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Cornwall
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