A mission to complete an 8-point checklist within each county of England.
It sounds daft, but travelling to the middle of Siberia made me realise that I don’t properly know my own country. It should not have taken numerous 30-hour train journeys through Russia’s gigantic icy plains to reach this realisation; but it was actually getting to a wild, far-away...
It seems fitting that the first of the 39 Historic Counties visited was Cornwall. Home of Land’s End, the start of so many long-distance challenges, Cornwall resides at the far south west corner of England. Cornwall is effectively an island; the Tamar River that runs from north to south...
Brown Willy. The highest point of Cornwall is called Brown Willy. The original Cornish name of the hill is Bronn Wennili, meaning the slightly more family-friendly ‘Hill of Swallows’. This was the first high-point ascent of the Shire Checklist. Once I parked up at the rocky deserted area of...