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Ellie Harrison

It’s comforting to recognise that if you’ve felt it, other people have felt it too. There’s comfort, too, in knowing that as you walk, other people have also walked here. Each step supported the burdens of ancestors before you, it is merely your turn to tread.

Britain’s best campsite for walkers

Slap bang on the South Downs Way, the farm offers a sheltered nook where you can pitch up and watch the stars come out above the downs as you sit beside your campfire.

Cornwall, Land’s End

This clifftop walk from Sennen Cove is a rewarding way to arrive at mainland England’s most westerly point, with wonderful coastal scenery, a range of birdlife and the waves of the Celtic Sea rolling in from the horizon.

2. Devon, Budleigh Salterton

River views, sea views, even beaver views if you arrive at dusk, this walk has them all. But the hero view comes at just 62m above sea level as you top Brandy Head to gaze across Lyme Bay over the shingle beach of Budleigh Salterton and its fabulous red cliffs.

3. Surrey, Box Hill

Britain’s first-ever public country park, Box Hill (224m) so commands the land around it that John Logie Baird rented a solitary house there and sent experimental radio waves down to a pub far below.