CHANNEL ISLAND WALKS
By Paddy Dillon (read excerpts from this book at Google Books)
Published by Cicerone Press (read more about this book at Cicerone)
ISBN 1-85284-288-1
Price £9.99

This guidebook was born simply of a desire to visit and explore the Channel Islands. Walt Unsworth at Cicerone Press was interested when approached and promptly produced a contract. The idea was to visit Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm and check a variety of walking routes. The Channel Islands have excellent coastal walks and quite a few lesser known walks inland. They also have an immense number of visitor attractions. Most short walks could include two or three of these attractions, so walkers need plenty of extra time to look at interesting things along the way. By the time a whole month of route research was completed, a total of 47 short walks had been checked, spread all around the island group. In fact, there was even a spare day left over at the end for a quick trip to St. Malo in France! The amazing history and heritage of the Channel Islands, intensely bound up with politics and warfare, makes it an exceedingly interesting place for historians to study, but there is also an interesting and bewildering range of flora and bird-life. It is surprising how much is packed into these small islands, and how long you need to be able to explore them properly. Travelling around Jersey and Guersey involved using an excellent system of buses, while ferries led to Sark and Herm and the famous "Joey" was used to fly to Alderney.

WALK CONTENTS

Jersey

Walk 1 - St. Helier Town Trail; Walk 2 - St. Aubin's Bay; Walk 3 - Noirmont Point; Walk 4 - St. Brelade & Corbière; Walk 5 - Les Quennevais; Walk 6 - Les Mielles; Walk 7 - L'Étacq & Plémont; Walk 8 - Plémont & Grève de Lecq; Walk 9 - Grève de Lecq & Devil's Hole; Walk 10 - Ronez & St. John; Walk 11 - Bonne Nuit & St. John; Walk 12 - Belle Hougue & Trinity; Walk 13 - Bouley Bay & Rozel; Walk 14 - Rozel & St. Catherine's; Walk 15 - Gorey & Queen's Valley; Walk 16 - Grouville & St. Clement; Walk 17 - Hougue Bie & Queen's Valley; Walk 18 - Vallée des Vaux; Walk 19 - Waterworks Valley; Walk 20 - St. Peter's Valley; Walk 21 - Val de la Mare; Walk 22 - Corbière Walk

Guernsey

Walk 23 - St. Peter Port Town Trail; Walk 24 - Fermain Bay; Walk 25 - Jerbourg Point; Walk 26 - Icart Point; Walk 27 - Pointe de la Moye; Walk 28 - La Prévote & Torteval; Walk 29 - Pleinmont; Walk 30 - Roquaine Bay & Lihou; Walk 31 - Perelle & St. Saviour; Walk 32 - Vazon Bay & Cobo; Walk 33 - Cobo Bay & Saumarez; Walk 34 - Portinfer & l'Islet; Walk 35 - L'Ancresse & Vale; Walk 36 - St. Sampson & Bordeaux; Walk 37 - Belle Grève Bay; Walk 38 - Beau Sejour & Le Friquet; Walk 39 - St. Martin; Walk 40 - St. Andrew & Castel; Walk 41 - King's Mills & Fauxquets; Walk 42 - Rocquaine & Quanteraine

Alderney Sark & Herm

Walk 43 - Alderney - East; Walk 44 - Alderney - West; Walk 45 - Sark - South; Walk 46 - Sark - North; Walk 47 - Herm Island

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