Walk the walk: the app mapping 140,000 miles of public right of way

Community-based, Slow Ways has verified 60% of a network of pedestrian-friendly routes across England and WalesI meet up with Daniel Raven-Ellison, the brains behind the Slow Ways walking network, in the darkness of a drizzly dawn at Kidsgrove railway station in Staffordshire. Our mission? To walk and verify the final 17-mile (27km) link in the route between Birmingham and Manchester.Steady drizzle falls as we head north beside another slow way - the Trent and Mersey canal. "You can walk from Godalming [Surrey] to Kendal [Cumbria] on canals," says Raven-Ellison. "We've got this ready-made national trail and there's no signage to invite you to do that ? Kingfisher!" Continue reading...