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There is a small piece of rural engineering that walkers cross constantly and rarely examine.
The problem it solves is truly awkward. A boundary must be continuous to hold…
Peat forms where the ground is too wet and too acidic for dead plant material to rot completely, so it piles up instead. That single condition produces a landscape that…
The useful question about any old route is what it was for, because the purpose determined the line - and routes made for different purposes look completely different on the…
The useful question on any coastal path is why the route exists at all, because walking was rarely the reason. Somebody needed to get along this coast, and the path…
The difference between covering ground and seeing a place is mostly about route choice. Everything below is a way of arranging a walk so that the parts between the destinations…
The gradient is the point. Railways were engineered to keep climbs gentle, which means a converted line is walkable and cyclable by almost anyone regardless of the terrain it crosses.…