Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites only got as far down as Derby, before turning back

Watching in Tamworth

Chipping Campden Market Hall

From a website called "Chipping Campden Things to Do Tips"(by iandsmith)

Through the Midlands (which are absolute guff by the way).

The problem with the Midlands is that it is just one massive urban sprawl with little to see and far too many people.

Therefore, the last week’s walking has been a matter of making up the necessary miles to reach Land’s End, rather than enjoyment in itself.

While I say there are too many people, some have been quite helpful to me by letting me sleep at their houses, and some have even fed me, which is nice.

It’s just the others that are the problem.

Previously on my journey people have come by at nice long intervals and have been a pleasant interruption to a peaceful solitude.

But along my route from Edale to Derby to Tamworth to Stratford-Upon-Avon to Chipping Camden, they are everywhere and cannot be avoided.

I have tried and tried to rid myself of my misanthropy, but I can’t resist the thought that all these non-I’s are running around playing out their roles in life without a second’s contemplation failing to realise than man-is-not-what-he-is and is-what-he-is-not.

It is easy to love people when there’s none of them around, but when there in your face every second displaying their weaknesses and highlighting your own it’s a much different story.

Progress has been good however and I probably shouldn’t moan. I have now done 750 miles which is far more than Botham’s highly publicised campaign of 19 days of 20 miles, 380 in total, and he’s got his super lorry and entourage behind him every step of the way in case he has got to take a crap and there’ll be someone there ready to wipe for him with silk toilet paper or something, which puts it all in perspective really.