Off the Beaten Track: England and Wales

England and Wales might feel familiar to many, but there are countless hidden idylls and remote wildernesses to discover amongst the soaring passes, spectacular coastlines and boundless moorlands. For many, Martin's 'slow road' routes will have opened up the country's most well known highways and byways, but there is so much more to England and Wales than these, at times overcrowded, hotspots.
This book is the next, natural step in Martin's wanderings around England and Wales. If Take The Slow Road whetted the appetite for a Great British adventure, this book will be the main course, filling you up with inspiring writing and beautiful imagery from the most remote and wild corners of England and Wales. It will take you to the very edges of the map, on a series of personal journeys to uncover parts of these countries that the masses never reach but wish they could.
In discovering these secret and beautiful places this fabulous book shows the reader that, with a little imagination, and some effort, they too can get off the beaten track in their own country.

Martin Dorey is a writer, surfer and serial camper van owner. In 2011 he presented the BBC2 television programme 'One Man and his Camper Van'. He is the author of Take the Slow Road: England and Wales (2019), Take the Slow Road: Ireland (2020), Take the Slow Road: France (2021), The Camper Van Bible Second Edition (2023), Take the Slow Road: Spain and Portugal (2023), The Green Camping Book (2024) and Take the Slow Road: Scotland Second Edition (2024), amongst several others.
@martindorey; www.martindorey.com

Author's Preface 6
About this book 8
Introducing England 9
Introducing Wales 11
How to get to England and Wales 12
Where and how to stay overnight in England and Wales 14
Your essential kit 17
Travel, climate and the mess we make 20
ENGLAND 22
The South-west
01 Wessex Wandering 25
02 The East Lyn River 39
03 Bude's Lost Waterway 49
04 The River Avon 61
05 The Jurassic Undercliff 73
06 Devon Coast to Coast 83
The South and South-east
07 The Wight Chines 97
08 The River Test 109
09 Goring to Maidenhead 121
10 Dungeness Desolation 133
11 Kent's Pilgrims' Way 147
East Anglia
12 The Suffolk Coast 159
The North
13 Spurn Head and the Humber 171
14 The North York Moors 183
15 Stanhope to Newcastle 197
16 The Northumberland Coast 207
17 The Otterburn Ranges 219
The North-west
18 The Tweed Valley 229
19 The Solway Firth 241
20 The Western Lakes 249
21 The Forest of Bowland 259
WALES 270
22 Cwm Bychan and the Roman Steps 273
23 The Pass of The Cross 283
24 The Teifi 291
25 The Brecon Beacons 303
Index 316
Acknowledgements 320