The entire North Downs way has been walked with Google’s street camera equipment and will be the first long distance footpath to be covered this way. “We’re putting the best of the British countryside where it’s never been before – on Google maps,” said Peter Morris, the North Downs Way trail manager. From 17 March, when the North Downs Way goes live, the national trails will start appearing on Google Street View. The Cleveland Way will be next. This means that you will be able to
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South-west Norfolk is flat! The borders with Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are fens, that is, reclaimed marshland that is mostly below sea level and drained by pumps feeding into rivers and channels. The land is very fertile and easy to till, so it’s great for agriculture, and the fields are vast, like the sky. Everything is done in straight lines, so the rivers mostly run like an arrow between dikes, and the roads don’t bend, they run straight then there is a corner and you are on
Read more →My publisher, Oxbow Books, has signed me up to produce another book for them for publication in 2016. They have asked me to start work on Norfolk, or possibly East Anglia, on the grounds that it’s a lovely part of the World, they have a lot of customers there, and loads of people decamp to Norfolk for their holidays. As I don’t know the area at all well, it will be a real adventure, discovering the beauty and secrets of the east of England, and seeking
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