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The Thames Path Map Booklet

Emma — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A booklet of all the mapping needed to complete the Thames Path National Trail between the Woolwich Foot Tunnel in east London and the river’s source in Gloucestershire. This straightforward trail covers 292km (182 miles) and can be walked in around 2 weeks.

GPX files available to download
The full route line is shown on 1:25,000 OS maps
The map booklet can be used to walk the trail in either direction
Sized to easily fit in a jacket pocket
The relevant extract from the OS Explorer map legend is included
Route extension from Erith in Kent to Woolwich Foot Tunnel is also provided
An accompanying Cicerone guidebook – Walking the Thames Path – is also available, which includes a copy of this map booklet

The Thames Path

Emma — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A guidebook to walking the Thames Path National Trail between Woolwich Foot Tunnel in east London and the river’s source in Gloucestershire. Covering 292km (182 miles), this straightforward trail takes around 2 weeks to hike. A level walk alongside riverside paths, it makes an ideal first long-distance trail for beginners.

The route is described from east to west in 20 stages between 6 and 26km (4-16 miles) in length. An optional route extension from Erith in Kent to the traditional start at Woolwich Foot Tunnel is also provided.

GPX files available to download
Contains step-by-step description of the route alongside 1:50,000 OS maps
Includes a separate map booklet containing OS 1:25,000 mapping and route line
Handy route summary table helps you plan your itinerary
Refreshment and accommodation information given for each route stage
Public transport by stage is listed for those wanting to break the trail into shorter sections

Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

Emma — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A Times bestseller

‘Wonderful…I was hooked from the first page. It’s the real stuff.’ – Michael Frayn
‘Deeply affecting’ – Guardian
‘Superb’ – Mail on Sunday
‘Barney Norris is a rare and precious talent‘ – Evening Standard

‘There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral. That is the meaning of this quiet city, where the spire soars into the blue, where rivers and stories weave into one another, where lives intertwine.’

One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide – a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower – all facing their own personal disasters. As one of those lives hangs in the balance, the stories of all five unwind, drawn together by connection and coincidence into a web of love, grief, disenchantment and hope that perfectly represents the joys and tragedies of small town life.

Barney Norris’s third novel, The Vanishing Hours, will be published in July 2019.