Walks and runs worth the mud

I'm Simon. I film the places I walk and run, mostly around Cheshire, and write them up so you can do them too. 223 routes, each with a map and GPX, most with a film.

Cheshire 131Staffordshire 23Wales 20Derbyshire 11Wirral 9Shropshire 9Cornwall 6Merseyside 4Cumbria 4Greater Manchester 3Scotland 2West Midlands 1

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Cover of Places in Cheshire with a View, a Run Adventurer book by Simon Donnelly

New: the Run Adventurer book

Places in Cheshire with a View

People think Cheshire is flat. This book walks the rim of the Cheshire bowl: the sandstone hills above the Mersey, the Sandstone Trail ridge and the gritstone edges up to Shining Tor. Twenty hills, each with the walk to the top, what you're looking at, the history, the rock and the folklore.

Full colour, A5 paperback, printed to order by Lulu (allow a week or two). Every route has a QR code that brings you back here for the map, the film and the GPX.

Buy the book £21.99 Read a free extract The routes in the book

I also write books

Comic novels, mostly set in Cheshire, and a lot of the places in them are on this site. Where a walk goes through book country, you'll see the cover on the route.

The books and their walks

The Pie WhispererNobody's Told the BeesThe Badger of ProofCrypt-O Currency