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About the journal
A short page about who writes We Walk Together, why we started it, and the few things we decided not to do.
We Walk Together is a small independent journal about British walks and the local history you pass on them. It is written and edited by a handful of walkers in London, Bristol and Harrogate who cannot let a village church pass without wanting to know how old it is.
The journal is not a travel magazine. There are no press trips, no sponsored routes and no star ratings. If a walk is on the site, somebody on the editorial team has put the kettle on at the other end of it.
What we write
Two kinds of thing. Walks, which are specific routes with history and practical notes; and essays, which are the general background a new walker might want before or after a route. Rights of way, map reading, the Countryside Code, seasons, kit.
What we do not do
- We do not invent statistics, surveys, experts or testimonials. If a figure is in a piece, it comes from a cited source we have opened.
- We do not recommend commercial businesses as ‘the best’. Pubs and cafes mentioned by name have been eaten in, not read about.
- We do not list specific prices, bus times or opening hours unless we can see them in a current source; those change too quickly for us to be useful.
- We do not take money from the sites we cover. Guest posts, when we accept them, are flagged and follow our editorial rules.
Authorship
Pieces are published under ‘the We Walk Together editors’ rather than individual names. If you want to know who wrote something in particular, write to us. We will tell you.
Contact
We read every email that reaches [email protected]. Corrections are welcome, especially where a path has been diverted, a pub has closed, or a date is wrong.
Image credits
All photographs used on the site are licensed for commercial reuse and are credited beneath each image under their original licence. The main photographs used on the home page and the current articles are:
- Home: ‘The Ridgeway Path’, Peter Jemmett, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- Avebury: ‘Avebury Stone Circles’, Rxfelix, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- Malham: ‘Malham Cove, Limestone Pavement’, Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- Wayland’s Smithy: ‘Wayland Smithy Long barrow’, Msemmett, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- Rights of way: ‘Public footpath sign on Banstead Heath’, Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- OS maps: Ordnance Survey 25-inch sheet, Haddingtonshire VII.5, 1894, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
- Countryside Code: ‘Kissing Gate on Brabourne Lane’, David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
