Well done to everyone who answered, who pretty much got it correct. I have asked that question to people any times, and I've had loads of instinctive wrong answers, from zero to tens of miles. P… (View Post)

The problem is that you also knacker your body. I walked, on average, 18 miles a day, and after a year I had a series of niggles that really needed a period of rest. I could have walked on - we consi… (View Post)

Thanks. And not bad considering, when I was thirteen or so, I was told I'd never walk properly again! (To which a friend says: "You don't walk properly. You walk stupid distances...&qu… (View Post)

It'd be next to impossible. There are apparently 140,000 miles or RoW (fp's and bridleways) in E&W. In a year's solid walking, I did 6,000 miles with only a handful of days off. So… (View Post)

There's another side to this as well. Butterley engineering was founded in 1790. In its time, the steelworks created iron and steel for many things, including St Pancras station roof, the Spinna… (View Post)