England Things to Do

With excellent marked trails and camping facilities, and the Countryside Rights of Way Act allowing walkers to walk freely on over 2.1 million acres of land, England belies its small size with an incredible variety of hiking opportunities.

The UK’s renowned National Parks provide the backdrop to most excursions, with the dramatic landscapes of the Peak District and the Lake District’s high mountain passes drawing thousands of hikers. Further north the windswept Yorkshire Moors and the misty marshlands of the Yorkshire Dales offer hikers the chance to explore ‘Bronte County’, made famous by the legendary sisters, and in the south the lush woodlands and open plains of the New Forest, Exmoor and Dartmouth National Parks offer a network of trails that snake through paddocks of free-roaming native ponies.

The southernmost islands in the British Isles, England‘s aptly named Channel Islands lie in the English Channel near the French coast and include the bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. As the closest British territory to France, the islands have long been a strategic gateway to continental Europe and remain a fascinating focal point of Britain’s military and naval history, including being the only British territory to be occupied by German troops during WWII.