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LETJOG PEAK No 22: (Eastern slope of) Dundry Hill, Bristol (160 metres) Walk Date: Monday 22 May 2023 Outside of London the city of Bristol, as an entity in itself, is unique in holding ‘Ceremonial County’ status. A product of the 1997 Lieutenancies Act, the built-up area was separated from its environs, comprising the short-livedContinue reading “The Riddle”

LETJOG PEAK No 21: Black Down, West Sussex (280 metres) Walk Date: Tuesday 16 May 2023 Today’s LETJOG Peaks walk took me southward from the Surrey towns of Hindhead and Haslemere and over the border into West Sussex, thence entering England’s most newly-designated national park. Although not part of the chalk ridge that makes upContinue reading “A Forest”

LETJOG PEAK No 20: Leith Hill, Surrey (295 metres) Walk Date: Monday 15 May 2023 For all the wildness of the higher summits further north, today was the first time on my LETJOG Peaks challenge that I have let out an audible ‘Wow!’ on reaching a County Top. Leith Hill, at 295 metres, is notContinue reading “Always The Sun”

LETJOG PEAK No 19: High Stones, South Yorkshire (548 metres) Walk Date: Friday 5 May 2023 It had to happen sometime over the four days of my LETJOG Peaks escapade to the Peak District, as enjoying a totally dry walking week in this massif would be to miss an integral part of the experience. AndContinue reading “Black Treacle”

LETJOG PEAKS Nos 17 and 18: Shining Tor, Cheshire (559 metres) and Cheeks Point, Staffordshire (520 metres) Walk Date: Thursday 4 May 2023 Today’s walk, of around 14 miles, took me towards the western side of the Peak District National Park, starting out from the village of Burbage, just on the edge of the fineContinue reading “Morning Sun”

LETJOG PEAKS Nos 15 and 16: Black Chew Head, Greater Manchester (542 metres) and Black Hill, West Yorkshire (582 metres) Walk Date: Wednesday 3 May 2023 It was on with the sun cream and the sun-hat today for the first time on my LETJOG Peaks challenge. What a day. The Peak District just dazzles inContinue reading “Champagne Supernova”

LETJOG PEAK No 14: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire (636 metres) Walk Date: Tuesday 2 May 2023 At last my LETJOG Peaks walk reaches the highlands! I have been longing to get to upland England ever since I hatched my plans for this venture a couple of months ago, just awaiting windows in the weather and inContinue reading “Man On The Rocks”

2 May 2023 Today is the day that my LETJOG Peaks challenge at last reaches ‘Upland England’. I am writing this from Derbyshire in the Peak District, but before I post anything further on my walks I want to reflect on the cause that I am supporting in my venture, namely those in Ukraine sufferingContinue reading “Rainy Day People”

LETJOG PEAKS Nos 12 & 13: Chrishall Common, Essex (147 metres), and Great Chishill, Cambridgeshire (146 metres) Walk Date: Tuesday 25 April 2023 Up in the north-western extremity of Essex, just past the place where a remote footpath exits the corner of a ploughed field, the county reaches its summit; not on open downland butContinue reading “A Saucerful Of Secrets”

LETJOG PEAK No 11: Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire (330 metres) Walk Date: Wednesday 19 April 2023 Scotland has its Munros, peaks of over 3,000 feet (about 915 metres) that total 282 in number at the last count, all embodied in a list originally conceived in 1891 by Sir Hugh Munro during an era of great wildernessContinue reading “High And Dry”