Jim Bunting, the ranger for the John o’ Groats Trail, looks at the development of this new walking route that has captured his heart. In 2014 Jay Wilson, a US citizen then living in Hertfordshire, decided to take on the well-travelled trek from Lands’ End to John o’ Groats. Having grown up alongside the Appalachian Trail, he was a keen long distance walker and this was the biggest and most diverse route he could find in the UK. He never finished the route; instead, ending up living in a cottage in Berriedale overlooking the two towers, shaped like the bishop…
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