A website is calling for 10,000 volunteers to help walk and verify thousands of routes that were mapped during the lockdown
On a grey December morning, geographer Dan Raven-Ellison leads the way from Southall in west London to Ealing Broadway, past Indian restaurants and car washes, locks and laundry lines, along suburban streets, stretches of the Grand Union Canal and into Walpole Park.
The journey could take 15 minutes by train but that’s missing the point. Raven-Ellison is the founder of Slow Ways, a project to create a network of walking routes connecting all of Great Britain’s towns, cities and thousands of villages.
