Here’s an example: for centuries the idea that anyone could mess around with the names of months would January, or Januhairy, as women who have signed up to no longer shave their armpits now regard the first month Also in the rename-the-month game there’s Janujuiceless (does what it says on the tin), something called all of next month… Salcombe Gin’s ‘Clear Sights’ Swap your daily smoothie for something that adds a Strain into a highball glass filled with ice, top up with soda water and garnish with a baby carrot.

My own long lost youth lies there in that fabulous demesne called Nettlecombe where I got up to all sorts Don’t worry, I won’t bore you with tales of my wasted youth – but I will tell you about the excellent You’ll find Nettlecombe a couple of miles south of Williton, in the great coastal vale of West Somerset Keep to the left of the lawn as you walk past the old house and head for the gate in the south east corner Walk details Route: From Nettlecombe in West Somerset, south up Bird’s Hill, descending east to Monksilver

Bristol Channel, the Quantocks, the Brendons, and the vast expanse of Exmoor, with Dunkery looming to the south From Selworthy Beacon, take a section of the South West Coast Path down to Hurlestone Point. Through Bossington and the Evergreen Oak Woods 🌳 Just south of Hurlestone, two paths head toward Bossington—take Distance & Difficulty: 6 miles, steep in places. There are no facilities once you head up into the woods and onto the hills.

stretches from the Exe Estuary to the Dorset border and north up into the heights of the Blackdown Hills certain items that come right across the menus of all the hotels (there are seven Pigs all based in the south “It can get more difficult in months like January or February,” said Dan. Nobody wants to be the same thing for months, anyway. “Even if you can’t get something in 25 miles you can still source it sustainably,” Dan added.

One of the most flavoursome wild harvests around is popping its green leaves up all over the South West And when the temperatures do warm up the deep vales of the Brendon Hills are capable of producing vast

article was featured in the Western Morning News and it was all about a charming young guy called Greg Milne below a mysterious forest did we search and forage, until we had enough wild morsels for chef Greg Milne Having said that, Gregory Stewart Milne, to give him his full name, does not leap around smashing pots Radio Four’s Food Programme in the kitchen) - but you get the feeling that his frenetic energy and youthful This description was enough to tempt me to travel 150 miles west, but I did so with my journalistic cynicism

The right kind of hill will do. Starting at Crowcombe Park Gate: High Ridge to Wilmot's Pool The South West region has a variety of summits Robin Upright’s Hill to Halsway Post, before returning over Hurley Beacon and Black Hill to Crowcombe Electricity, Frankenstein, and the Quantocks ⚡ Up on Hurley Beacon, I pointed south towards Broomfield What can you see from Dowsborough hill-fort?

View looking south from ridge of the Quantock Hills Remote Exmoor: Wild Valleys and Empty Acres Moving Golden Cap, Dorset You only have to climb the Haldon Hill range just south of Exeter to know that there Sail south a dozen miles and things get even wilder. Now let’s go south—a long way south—as far, in fact, as you can go without getting your feet wet. The Brendon Hills, forming the eastern limb of Exmoor, are among the least visited uplands south of the

Head south-east along the unmade ancient drovers' track—known in a 13th-century document as Alferode—past Robin Upright's Hill: Head south-east across to Robin Upright's Hill. The Route The Herepath: Park at Crowcombe Park Gate and join the ancient ridgeway (Herepath) heading south The Ridge to Thorncombe: Join the main ridge track heading south past Bicknoller Post to Thorncombe Barrow Turn south along the spine with views stretching out over the sea towards Minehead until you reach Crowcombe

And you don't really expect to find remote beaches filled with the madding crowds in winter. The coast at Lansallos Salcombe Regis Mouth: it's a long way down The secret seaside way, way under the It lies only about a mile east of ever-popular Sidmouth. It's an awful long way down to Salcombe Regis Mouth. SEE THE FULL SALCOMBE REGIS MOUTH ARTICLE HERE The beach at Salcombe Regis Mouth When reaching the beach

Minehead from Hopcott Hill. showing harbour and North Hill So if you are an ardent rambler who cares It’s the very beginning of the South West Coast Path and it rises and falls 10 fabulous coastal miles The "Hands" - sculpture where both this hike and the South West Coast Path begin Within a few yards you Walk details Route: From the beginning of the South West Coast Path at Minehead to Bossington, returning Distance and going: Seven miles, steep in places.

Lundy Island: The Most "Islandy" Island Lundy Island, located 12 miles off the North Devon coast, is "You are never more than 80 miles away from the sea in the UK." Island Statistics Lundy is 12 miles off the nearest part of the mainland and some 23 miles by the supply The massive chunk of granite is three and a half miles long by half a mile wide and at its highest rises The isle runs north to south, which means that its rocky perpendicular west side bears the brunt of most