Hereford Times | Walks

This month's Garth Lawson walk is Upper Olchon Valley

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000

This month’s walk by GARTH LAWSON links a modern novel and film with a legend from the days of Welsh rebellio. UPPER OLCHON VALLEY Resistance: an introductory walk. 3¾ mile easy to moderate walk on lower slopes of Black Mountain ridges. Country lane, waterfall, undulating pastures and meadows.

December’s walk by GARTH LAWSON takes in the site of a wartime tragedy

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0000

YOUNG Brian Moran heard a tremendous noise as the ailing leviathan groaned past Sparrowplock Cottage. “It must have been a Monday or a Friday”, he later recalled, “because I was in the bath”.

November's walk by GARTH LAWSON comes across a martyr’s grave, a “surprise” castle and some fine views

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:24:06 +0000

Welsh Newton, Pembridge Castle and Welsh Newton Common. 5½ mile moderate ramble in a little walked area. 15 stiles. Map: OL 14 Wye Valley and Forest of Dean. Public transport: Stagecoach bus 36 stops at Welsh Newton church.

Clarification to Walk No 16 featured in Garth Lawson's Hereford Times Walks

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:02:31 +0100

We have been asked to point out that the following clarification to point 2 of Walk No 16 published on page 68 of Garth Lawson’s Hereford Times Walks would be helpful: 2 Cusop Dingle, path junction. Go through gate in L corner, sharply down through gate on to gravel path and TL along drive beyond grid back into England. TR along Cusop Dingle road and Dulas Brook, with waterfalls, for 2/3 mile. Just beyond Paper Mill Cottage, where Kilvert had his picnic in 1878, and just before a clearing (R) bear L all the way up surfaced drive to R of Tycoch. Find a gate back L of 2nd dwelling.

This month’s walk by Garth Lawson overlooks work to uncover the story of a significant Herefordshire hill-fort

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:00:00 +0100

ABOVE new steps leading from the green lane to Eaton Camp, the cattle on the quiet hilltop are becoming quite used to inquisitive visitors. Fascinating progress is being made on the Eaton Project.

Garth Lawson's latest walk is a good introduction to the Black Mountains

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:42:16 +0100

This month’s walk by GARTH LAWSON is a good introduction to the Black Mountains and a lesson in the borders’ bloody history

Garth Lawson Putley and Aylton walk

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:00:00 +0100

This month’s walk by GARTH LAWSON goes in search of some of the traditional apple and pear orchards of the county – and a tragic tale which left a haunting legacy...

Garth Lawon's latest walk treads in the footsteps of the Roundhead who sealed Hereford's Civil War fate

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:30:00 +0100

FROM the village hall at Ballingham, land in a river-bend of Badela’s people, we’re casting our net as far as Carey and a “golden”

This month's walk by Garth Lawson visits Lingen and Harley's Mountain

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:00:00 +0100

This month’s walk by GARTH LAWSON visits Lingen and Harley’s Mountain, scene of very different historic and modern day battles. LINGEN AND HARLEY’S MOUNTAIN Quiet wooded valley and lanes. Exhilarating return from Harley’s mountain to Lingen. A brilliant five-mile moderate ramble. Never strenuous. Map: OS Explorer 201, Knighton and Presteigne.

Garth Lawson searches for Welsh Legend around Monnington

Sat, 14 May 2011 08:00:00 +0100

Vowchurch Common and Monnington Straddel. Bridlepath, field paths, mature woodland and fine views. Five- mile more moderate than energetic ramble, but with two short, sharp climbs. Map: Explorer OL 13, north sheet.