Malkin Photography
Helen Shelmerdine - Photographer and Author.
07733 010915
Middle Lee, Garrigill, Cumbria CA9 3HF, England
Together with my husband Bob I have walked from Land's End to John o'Groats twice by different routes and we are currently walking from Kent to Cape Wrath. We have reached Ashbourne in Derbyshire at the moment. Our first walk resulted in a book published by Merlin Unwin books. Click on the images below for more information. The map on the right shows our routes:
Our routes on our various walks are as follows:
Walk 1 - North coast of Cornwall on South West coast path to Bude, across Exmoor, up to Bristol, Chepstow, Wye Valley, Hereford, Knighton, Llangollen, Wrexham, Chester, Manchester, Irwell valley, Padiham, Ingleborough, Mallerstang, Eden valley, Moffatt, Glasgow, West Highland Way, Great Glen Way, Inverness, Dornoch, Wick, John o'Groats.
Walk 2 - South coast of Cornwall and Devon on South West coast path to Plymouth, across Dartmoor to Exeter, along the south coast to Bournemouth, New Forest to Salisbury, Stonehenge and Avebury, the Ridgeway to the Chilterns, Cambridge, Thetford, Norwich, out to the Norfolk coast and around the coast to King's Lynn, Boston, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Wolds, up the east coast from Filey to Berwick Upon Tweed, along the Tweed, Lammermuir Hills to Edinburgh, Dunfermline and Perth, from Blair Atholl up Glen Tilt and the Lairigh Ghru to Aviemore, Inverness, Lairg, Altnaharra, Strath Naver to Bettyhill, north coast to John o'Groats.
Current Walk - starrted at Eastbourne, followed the Kent coast to Whitstable, Canterbury, North Downs Way to Dorking, up to Weighbridge, along the Thames to Oxford, across the Cotswolds to Moreton in Marsh, Stratford Upon Avon, in-between Birmingham and Coventry to Tamworth, Burton upon Trent to Ashbourne. We are then planning to cross Derbyshire to Edale and join the Pennine Way.
We are often asked what our favourite part of our walks has been, but it is impossible to answer that! of course some parts of our country are more beautiful than others but we have loved every place and every experience. Our coasts are incredible, our mountains challenging and dramatic, our rivers and valleys majestic, our hamlets, villages, towns and cities have so much to offer. We are exploring and discovering our country in a deep and exciting way that cannot be achieved except on foot.
