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LAST MINUTE TICKETS AVAILABLE! The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There

Tue 19 Nov 2024 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT Chener Books, SE22 8HN

LAST MINUTE TICKETS AVAILABLE! The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There

Tue 19 Nov 2024 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT Chener Books, SE22 8HN

Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into – and connect – communities across England and Wales. More than just a practical way for us to walk, ride and cycle, they are an inheritance from our past, revealing how our ancestors interacted with and shaped their surroundings. From Iron Age footsteps to Anglo-Saxon mercenary trails, through Railway Age tracks and Home Army defences, our land reveals a hidden history of us.

But thousands of miles are still missing from our maps, and they will be lost forever unless they are urgently reclaimed. Fighting for these paths’ survival through his work with the Ramblers, Jack Cornish has spent years walking and recording these forgotten routes – those that have been lost, those that have been saved and those which remain hidden in plain sight.

This incredible ‘ordinary’ history of the land beneath our feet reminds us just how precious these paths are, and have been, to the human story of this island. This is a celebration of an ancient network and a rallying cry to reclaim what has been lost and preserve it for future generations.

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Chener Books, SE22 8HN