Those who put on their hiking boots in the heart of England will primarily traverse ancient cultural landscapes, featuring typical English scenery with fertile pastures and impressive manors, as well as moorland plateaus and oak-covered river valleys. The tours selected for this Rother hiking guide lead walkers to some of the hiking highlights in Central England: across the gentle hills of the Cotswolds, which became prosperous through sheep farming, with their quaint villages, through the rugged plateaus and deep green valleys of the Peak District National Park, all the way to the border region with Wales, from the protected oak forests of the Forest of Dean in the south to the Iron Age lakes in the north of Shropshire. While the English weather can certainly challenge equipment, nature compensates for the abundance of rain with carpets of daffodils in March.