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Four Points Ramble Book Four
Ramble Through the Heart of England (Paperback)
by Steve Saxton (Author) & Peter Field (Illustrator)
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Registered Charity No. 702429 |
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Four Points Ramble Book Four
Ramble Through the Heart of England (Paperback)
by Steve Saxton (Author) & Peter Field (Illustrator)
Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust has had the great good fortune to be chosen as one of the four charities to benefit from the sales of this fascinating book. The Trust will keep 100% of the cost of all copies sold by us. Proceeds of copies sold elsewhere will be divided between the four beneficiaries. More information about the Four Points Ramble Charitable Association can be found at the bottom of this page.
Book Four: Ramble Through the Heart of England
Book Four covers a hundred-mile section of the journey south, starting in Staffordshire and entering four more counties (Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, and Northants) as the route swings through the very centre of England. It begins in Stone, passes through Stafford, Lichfield, Moira, Measham, Stoke Golding, Bedworth and Rugby, and ends, also canalside, in Braunston, Northants. Trails and paths followed include the Heart of England Way, and the towpaths of eight different canals.
Not so much a guide book, but more of a slow travel diary, this book is intended for the armchair traveller but may also inspire the active walker.
The four charities that have agreed to participate as beneficiaries are:
Price £8.50
(including p&p for mainland UK addresses)
Published by The Four Points Ramble Association
ISBN 978-0-9555297-3-3
Cover design by Pauline Gribben
Softback. 144 pages. Published in November 2009.
Copyright © Stephen Saxton 2009
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About The Four Points Ramble Association - A walking, writing, and charitable fundraising project
A charitable project to support and promote wildlife and heritage conservation, as well as the relief of suffering resulting from illness or deprivation.
A major means of achieving these objectives is through the making of grants to selected charities: either grants of money raised by selling books, or grants of books which the charities may sell, keeping the proceeds of all sales. The books describe a ramble round England.
The Ramble
The Four Points Ramble challenge is to walk to each of the four extremities of England (that is, the northernmost, southernmost, westernmost, and easternmost tips of the mainland), then return to the starting point. The Four Points Ramble is emphatically not conceived as a continuous, day-after-day exercise to be started and finished in one go; that would transform a journey that should be enjoyed into one to be endured. Neither is it creating a new Trail or Way; if others wish to undertake the challenge, the suggestion would be to walk the Four Points by whatever route seems best at the time.
A key part of this project is to write books, which are in part a diary of the walk but with additional observations and digressions on subjects related to incidents on the walk or with local connections. The digressions reflect interests in wildlife, history, literature, music, biography, industrial archaeology (in particular, canals and railways in the age of steam), genealogy, heraldry, church history, topography and story-telling.
The books will be sold mainly through, and wholly on behalf of, charities which are local to each book. Each charity will keep the full price of any books bought directly from that charity. The purchase price of books that are sold through the Four Points Ramble Association will be divided between the beneficiary charities.
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