Campaigner, loves walking, landscapes, birds, archaeology, wild country. Own views. General secretary Open Spaces Society, vice-president Ramblers, vice-chair Campaign for National Parks & Dartmoor Preservation Association, patron Walkers are Welcome towns
Kate Ashbrook
Loading...
It was lovely to be at the start of the relay, and I look forward to joining again on 25 June when we pass the bench in honour of David Sharp, who invented the national trail and worked so hard on it.
Early-morning walk in @peakdistrict.bsky.social last month when on @campaign4parks.bsky.social away event for trustees @andrewmccloy.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/d...
campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/r...
Path reopened on Cornish coast, thanks to @ramblers.org.uk & @openspacessociety.bsky.social www.voicenewspapers.co.uk/news/environ...
Celebrating 50 years of the Two Moors Way campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/f... @dartmoorjohn.bsky.social @exmoornp.bsky.social @dpadartmoor.bsky.social
Fab walk with @bucksbirdclub81.bsky.social on Greenham Common @bbowt.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/g...
Happy 90th birthday @campaign4parks.bsky.social defending the parks for all to enjoy @roseoneill.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social @openspacessociety.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk @cprecountryside.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/n...
First leg of Thames Path relay from source to Ashton Keynes campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/a... @thamespathnt.bsky.social
Lovely visit to Forest of Dean campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/b... @rspb.bsky.social @gloswildlife.bsky.social
đź‘Źđź‘Ź The Thames Path 30th anniversary Relay featured in tonight's BBC South Today news, from 14.45 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
and on the Oxfordshire local news page www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It was a misty mid-April morning at Hartington Youth Hostel in the White Peak, Derbyshire. I got up before 6am to make the most of my time. I was there with the Campaign for National Parks for a tr…
It made me feel rather old. There were only two of us at the Two Moors Way (TMW) fiftieth anniversary celebration who were at the launch on 29 May 1976. But, as I assured the audience, I was young …
Ninety years ago today, 26 May 1936, the Standing Committee on National Parks held its first meeting, at 4 Hobart Place in London. This was before there were any national parks in the UK; they were…
There was no sign of water when we met at the source of the River Thames, near Kemble in Gloucestershire, on 5 June. The gathering was to start of the 24-day relay along the Thames Path National Tr…
campaignerkate.wordpress.com
It was extremely hot when members of Buckinghamshire Bird Club congregated at the Greenham control tower car-park, at 3 pm on 23 May. This was a rare out-of-county trip (we were in West Berkshire).…
I cannot resist visiting the Forest of Dean in springtime, and so I returned on 2 May, with my visually-impaired friend Marika Kovacs, to enjoy the birdsong. We started on Crabtree Hill, near the S…
On 17 May the Bucks Bird Club returned to Rushmere Country Park, for a stroll around the woods and heath, led by Rob Andrews who knows his patch intimately. We were on greensand, on the border of B…
Kate Ashbrook, who represented The Ramblers at the opening of the National Trail in 1996, is shown with the Relay baton and Peter Finch from the River Thames Society. Both organisation were fundamental to the creation of the Thames Path National Trail. 2/3
@campaignerkate.bsky.social
Many thanks to Rob Andrews for your tour around Rushmere Country Park. 33 species in total with Firecrest,Treecreeper and elusive Spotted Flycatchers as highlights. More fabulous Bucks habitat for us to explore. On to Greenham next week!
