GET out and about on Exmoor with a useful pocket sized book of ten walks, released this month by Pixz Books (Halsgrove).

‘A Boot Up Exmoor’ by Adrian Tierney-Jones gives 10 leisure walks for this, our glorious national park right on our doorstep.

Exmoor based journalist and writer Adrian Tierney-Jones has picked ten of his favourite walks between five and eight miles across the beautiful Exmoor landscape which are ideal for families or groups of friends.

Exmoor is the last great wilderness of southern England, a land of small isolated hamlets and villages, deep wooded combes, swathes of woodland and high exposed moor, all teeming with wildlife.

“This is God’s own walking country,” says the author, “a land of contrasts and extremes; to walk it is to be humbled by nature, nurtured and nourished by its terrible beauty.”

He adds that the ten walks are just a small selection “but it is hoped they will inspire and stimulate a deep love of Exmoor and all its workings.”

All the walks finish where they start so you don’t have to rely on public transport and usually start from car parks, and shorter versions of the walks are also pointed out.

They are graded from easy to hard but are all leisurely walks that can be done in a morning to work up an appetite for lunch, or as an excuse to work off lunch!

Each walk has a map and points of interest are marked along, with full details in the text and plenty of colour photos, plus fact panels.

The walks include: Haddon Wood, Nutcombe Bottom, Tarr Steps, Cow Castle, Lynton, Brendon Hills, Dunkery Beacon, Lorna Doone Country, Winsford and Dulverton.

If you love walking and love Exmoor then this is a bargain.

‘A Boot Up Exmoor: 10 Leisure walks of discovery’, by Adrian Tierney-Jones, published by Pixz Books, £4.99