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If you can, travel outside the morning peak (peak times are from 6.30am to 9.30am), not least because it’s cheaper. Most walks can easily be completed between the morning and evening peak periods, although in summer when it’s light (up to 10pm in June), it’s delightful to walk late into the evening.

Children under 11 travel free, and there are significant concessions for 11- to 17-year-olds. If you have a bus pass for England, bus travel is free after 9.30am, but trains and tubes have to be paid for. London residents over 60 get a Freedom Pass for all zones which entitles them to free buses and tubes; almost all trains are free after 9.30am, and some (Overground and TfL Rail) all day.

Access

England’s rights-of-way network gives the walker open access to off-road footpaths, bridleways and other tracks which can lead to the heart of the countryside. They are important in London too, and are often followed in this book. Each is signposted where it leaves a public road, and usually at path junctions as well.