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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦

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Happily retired IT developer. Love walking & taking pics. Thames Path walked 7 times. 362 mile coast to coast Great Chalk Way completed in 2025 mywalks.uk #GreatChalkWayIn25

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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Many more photos from this year's 21.6 mile Great River Race along the #Thames between Millwall and Ham House, Richmond #greatriverrace flic.kr/s/aHBqjD4RTT
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2026 - September 12th - Great River Race
Annual 21.6 mile rowing marathon along the Thames between Millwall and Ham House Richmond
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🧵1/2 The Great River Race is an annual 21.6 mile rowing event on the Thames between Millwall & Ham House in Richmond. Each crew must carry a passenger & cox along with a 3’ x 2’ flag. A handicapping system ensures fair play. #greatriverrace #thamespath30
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The latest Tideway public space at King Edward Memorial Park is now open. Having visited all the others, IMO it's the best. It provided a great viewing platform to watch the Great River Race yesterday - 21 miles from Millwall to Ham House greatriverrace.org.uk #ThamesPath30 #greatriverrace #Thames
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Last year, in walking the Great Chalk Way from Dorset to Norfolk, I chose to reach Avebury from Win Green via Salisbury. I have now walked the alternative route to Avebury by simply continuing along the Wessex Ridgeway. So enjoyable! @theridgewaynt.bsky.social www.mywalks.uk/others/gcw/w...
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Wessex Ridgeway in Wiltshire - part of the Great Chalk Way
The Wessex Ridgeway stretches for 136 miles from Lyme Regis in Dorset to Marlborough in Wiltshire and is one of the constituent trails comprising the Great Chalk Way - also referred to as the Greater ...
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One of Britain's quirkiest bus routes, the 23A, runs on 1 day a year between Warminster & the deserted village of Imber, through the middle of an MOD training area on Salisbury Plain. Yes - it's Imberbus Day! www.mywalks.uk/post/wessex-... #ImberbusDay #Imber
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Imberbus Day 2026 - Visiting the ghost village of Imber by bus from Warminster. Imber sits within the MOD's Salisbury Plain Training Area
Imberbus Day takes place every year in August or September. A convoy of buses, many of them former London Transport double deckers, ferry people from Warminster Station to the ghost village of Imber, ...
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Roundway Down Iron Age Hill Fort in Devizes. Battle of Roundway Down was fought here in 1643 during the English Civil War. Aka Oliver's Camp or Oliver's Castle, even though Cromwell never went there!! A really beautiful place to visit. More brown than green though in August 🧵1/2
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Wayland's Smithy Long Barrow yesterday afternoon - and all to myself for once. Just so atmospheric & peaceful! @theridgewaynt.bsky.social
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My walks along the Wessex Ridgeway introduced me to Devizes, the Kennet & Avon Canal & in particular the Caen Hill Locks. 29 locks rise 237 ft over 2 miles. Photos cover locks 29 to 44. What a beautiful sight! The K&A Canal Walk beckons next for me! Reading to Bristol & on to Avonmouth (maybe!)
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Whilst the start/finish of the #ThamesPath is bone dry for much of the year, here's a video I made in 2003 showing that it isn't always like this! Note my words - I'm not getting into any arguments as to the source of the river!! 🤣🤣🤣View in 4K if poss youtu.be/aPWrgCK30SE?... @andysin33.bsky.social
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The River Thames Flowing From The Source January 2023
YouTube video by John Tippetts
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The first 1¼ miles of the #Thames from the start of the Thames Path to the A429 at Kemble. Completely dry of course at this time of year @thamespathnt.bsky.social @andysin33.bsky.social
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Happy 30th Birthday to the Thames Path National Trail!
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Some photos of yesterday's final stage of the #ThamesPath from Lechlade to the Source at Trewsbury Mead. The river was flowing - just - as far as Cricklade but this must surely be due to the contribution from the River Churn that joins here #ThamesPath30 🧵1/2
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Stage 11 of my #ThamesPath walk today between Lechlade & the Source. Completed the trail the hard way (uphill) albeit the wrong way ( @andysin33.bsky.social ). Had to celebrate in the customary way at the Thames Head. More photos of today’s walk to follow
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Stage 10 of my #ThamesPath Sea to Source walk between Newbridge & Lechlade on what was a gorgeous day with loads of people out on the river & walking the trail. Saw 2 families of swans with 7 cygnets in total which was encouraging 😀. Many thanks to the volunteers who keep the grass etc in check 👏👏👏.
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
David Barber, the King's Swan Marker assisted by the Swan Markers of the Vintners & Dyers, the other Swan Uppers, as well as members of Swan Support were kept busy yesterday at Maidehead with a family of 9 cygnets. It was then on to Boulter's Lock & Cookham. #SwanUpping 🧵1/2
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Stage 9 of my Thames Sea to Source walk. Thanks to the cooling breeze I was able to reach Newbridge from Abingdon today - 24 miles 1/2
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Yesterday's Goring to Abingdon walk via #TheRidgeway as far as Wallingford. Met Thames Path Champion Wendy at Clifton Lock. Curtis & his wife have excelled themselves this year with their flower display. Ice cream sales fund more plants, so no need to feel guilty! @thamespathnt.bsky.social
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Marsh Lock Horsebridge at Henley. Closed beyond the lock since May 2022. A great loss to the residents of Shiplake and the #ThamesPath. This wonderful bridge must be renovated. If it helps make this happen sooner rather than later, then I'm happy to chip in via the proposed crowd funding
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Before the next heatwave I squeezed in another 3 sections of the #ThamesPath this week - Teddington to Windsor, Windsor to Henley & Henley to Goring. That's 70 miles officially. Nice weather for getting the drone up 1/3
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Richly deserved awards presented to Peter & Wendy at the conclusion of the Thames Path 30th Anniversary Relay on Sunday👏👏👏 @riverthamessoc.bsky.social @thamespathnt.bsky.social #NationalTrails #ThamesPath30
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Monday's walk along the #ThamesPath from London Bridge to Teddington Lock taking in all the currently completed Tideway riverside public space sites. I didn't know before but at Lots Road Power Station development you're able to look up 1 of the chimneys - nice touch 1/2
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I wondered how long it would take before the new Tideway public walkways fell victim to graffiti. Answer - not very long 😡😡😡. Bazelgette Embankment by Blackfriars Bridge
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Just your average urban fox having a stroll across Lambeth Bridge. Completely unphased by the traffic #urbanfox
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
One of the Richmond herons looking out over his domain yesterday afternoon @everyheron.bsky.social
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I passed these guys yesterday who were just finishing the #LandAid #ThamesPath Source to Sea non-stop relay race raising money to help young people at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Teams had to finish in less than 2 days starting on Wednesday evening Well done everyone!
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
20 mile 3rd stage of my Sea to Source walk along the Thames from Erith to London Bridge yesterday on what was a rather warm day! At Woolwich Foot Tunnel the slightly 'edgy' but nonetheless interesting ECP section came to an end & the #ThamesPath 'proper' took over. Glorious day! 1/2
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Continuing towards London alongside the #Thames with another 17 miles from Gravesend to Erith. The walk includes a 5½ mile 'detour' along the Rivers Darent & Cray to be able to get to the other side of the mouth of the Darent at the Dartford Creek Barrier - there's just no getting round it!
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If you want to avoid the summer crowds along the #Thames I highly recommend this 22 mile walk along the England Coast Path extension from the Isle of Grain in North Kent to Gravesend!
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I've now completed the alternative way to walk the #GreatChalkWay between Win Green & Overton Down. Am now happy that I've well and truly completed the GCW! Further stages to follow #wessexridgeway www.mywalks.uk/post/stage-28-wessex-ridgeway-ludwell-to-hindon-may-23rd-2026
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Stage 28 - Wessex Ridgeway - Ludwell to Hindon - May 23rd 2026
My walk along the Wessex Ridgeway Wiltshire section between Ludwell and Hinton. An alternative way of walking the Great Chalk Way
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Chelsea Quay on the north bank of the #Thames opposite Battersea Park. 1 of the new riverside spaces resulting from the Thames Tideway project.
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Yesterday the #ThamesPath 30th Anniversary Source to Woolwich Relay began with a short walk to Ashton Keynes. Seen off by Dame Fiona Reynolds, High Sheriff of Gloucestershire (who did most of the walk) & local MP Roz Savage. Lot of fun! Future legs here - nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails...
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Icknield Way passes through the village of Linton in Cambridgeshire. I missed its most wonderful piece of engineering when I walked the trail last year, so I had to return. I give you the Linton Clapper Stile! A Grade II Listed Monument & 1 of just a few such stiles remaining in the UK!
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We’re on a road to Nowhere! #FingerPostFriday #WessexRidgeway #Warminster
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Looking down at Coney’s Castle from Lambert’s Castle Hill. It’s behind the pylon & mostly hidden by the tree covering. It’s a much smaller Iron Age hillfort than Lambert’s. The woodland along the ramparts are covered with bluebells in springtime. #WessexRidgeway #GreatChalkWay #Bluebells
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Lambert’s Castle Hill 846 feet high overlooking topped by an Iron Age hill fort that is around 2,500 years old. The hilltop was used as a racecourse at some stage and was also the site of a fair for over 200 years until 1947. Fabulous 360° views. #WessexRidgeway #GreatChalkWay
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The very pretty village of Ashmore along the route of the Wessex Ridgeway is the highest village in Dorset. At this time of year, the nearby Ashmore Wood provides a spectacular display of bluebells. Photos can never fully do it justice! #WessexRidgeway #GreatChalkWay #bluebells
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This yew tree in the churchyard of All Saints' Alton Priors is said to be 1700 years old. Looks like 2 trees but is only 1 #thicktrunktuesday
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I can't believe I never noticed Scutchamer Knob before - maybe before volunteers did such a great job in clearing it out? I put this right this week. Loved the seat made from a couple of pallets giving fabulous views across the North Wessex Downs National Landscape. @theridgewaynt.bsky.social
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Wayland's Smithy this week with work still continuing on the planting of the new hedge in front of the dead hedge @theridgewaynt.bsky.social
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
After an extensive refurbishment, the walkway over the weir at Benson Lock finally reopened yesterday. The walkway is wider, there are new weir gates, a fish pass created & the footbridge at Benson has been resurfaced. Video - www.flickr.com/gp/thrapston... #ThamesPath @thamespathnt.bsky.social
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Benson Weir HD
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
On the day that the Coast to Coast Path becomes a National Trail, can I present my 360+ mile coast to coast walk from last spring/summer along the Great Chalk Way starting from Lyme Regis in Dorset & finishing at Holme-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. So enjoyable! www.mywalks.uk/others/gcw
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Other Walks | Great Chalk Way
My walks in 2025 along the six trails that comprise the Great Chalk Way stretching from Lyme Regis in Dorset to Holme-next-the-Sea in Norfolk
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A walk along my favourite section of the #ThamesPath from Bourne End to Henley in glorious sunshine. Many more photos & videos at flic.kr/s/aHBqjCNPqs #thamespath30
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Thames Barrier Park is a 17 acre green space on the north side of the #Thames next to the Thames Barrier. Its most eye-catching feature is the 'Green Dock' - a 130 foot sunken hedge garden serving as a reminder of the site's dockland heritage. Well worth a visit with cafe & toilets.
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I've passed this bench at Barnes loads of times and never once stopped to read the inscription. Thanks to Wendy the @thamespathnt.bsky.social volunteer extraordinaire I now understand its significance to the Thames Path. We owe a lot to David Sharp & his wife www.visitthames.co.uk/ideas-inspir...
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Thames Path National Trail @thamespathnt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Spring edition of the River Thames Society's Thames Guardian magazine features us, the Thames & Docklands History Group with Peter Stone at London Museum Docklands, and Chiswick RNLI crew Ed Hall's 'Tamesis' poems. #thamespath30 #history 📷 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social www.riverthamessociety.org.uk
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It's taken forever but at last I've finished writing my blogs on the 360+ mile Great Chalk Way that I walked last spring & summer from Lyme Regis to Holme-next-the-Sea. #GreatChalkWay #WessexRidgeway #CranborneDrovesWay #SarsenWay #Ridgeway #IcknieldWay #PeddarsWay www.mywalks.uk/others/gcw
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Other Walks | Great Chalk Way
My personal challenge in 2025 to walk along the series of walks collectively known as the Great Chalk Way. The trail starts at Lyme Regis in Dorset & finishes at Holme-next-the -Sea in Norfolk - a dis...
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The #ThamesPath in flood yesterday at the Source in Trewsbury Mead near Kemble. The spring by the stone was happily burbling away. With more rain forecast over the coming days I'm sure it'll stay this way for a while. Just don't forget your wellies and be careful! @thamespathnt.bsky.social
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Wayland's Smithy on #TheRidgeway, close to Uffington Castle. A magical place - even more so at this time of year
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Just completed the 362 mile, coast to coast Great Chalk Way in 27 stages. Started at Lyme Regis in Dorset & finished at Holme-next-the-Sea on the North Norfolk Coast #WessexRidgeway #CranborneDrovesWay #SarsenWay #TheRidgeway #IcknieldWay #PeddarsWay What an experience! @ramblersgb.bsky.social
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John Tippetts 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @johnmtippetts.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Continuing my 362 mile coast to coast walk from Lyme Regis to Hunstanton following the #GreatChalkWay Less than 100 miles to go now! 😃 #fingerpostfriday #GreatChalkWayIn25
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