Appendix 1: ‘Rutters’ for the walks in Chapter 4

Walk 1, Manchester

I walk this regularly in both directions. I describe it here as done from my office to the station; from station to office I simply reverse the route.

Ellen Wilkinson Building — Oxford Road — University Place — National Graphene Institute — Booth Street East — Upper Brook Street — Princess Street — Canal Street — Abingdon Street [see note] — Portland Street — Nicholas Street — Booth Street — Pall Mall — King Street — Cheapside — Chapel Walks — Cross Street — Exchange Square — National Football Museum — Victoria Station.

Abingdon Street has been closed since summer 2018 due to building works and remains so at the time of writing. During this time I have omitted Canal and Abingdon Streets from my route and turned straight from Princess Street into Portland Street, but the day Abingdon Street is eventually reopened I will go straight back to using the route as defined.

Walk 2, Crowborough

Day one: Railway station — Crowborough Hill — path behind the social club — Forest Rise — Palesgate Lane [Limekiln Football Ground] — through the woods, down to the Ghyll — Forest Rise — Burdett Road — Crowborough Hill — Church Road — Beacon Road — Melfort Road — Warren Road — Fielden Road [B&B].

Day two: Fielden Road — Beacon Road — Sheep Plain — footpath — Manor Way — Southridge Road — Whitehill Road — Gladstone Road — Queens Road — Blackness Road — Luxford Road — Old Lane [my house]— Poundfield Road — footpath [Beacon school: Fermor school] — Crowborough Hill — New Road — Beacon Road — Mill Lane — Croft Road — High Street [lunch at Crowborough Cross pub] — St Johns Road — Goldsmiths Avenue — Glenmore Road East — Rannoch Road — Warren Road — Fielden Road.

Walk Three, Seaford

Seaford station — Station Approach — Dane Road — Esplanade — past the Martello Tower and beach huts — up onto the cliffs — along cliff edge — past end of golf course [Viewpoint] — retrace steps a couple of hundred yards — path to South Hill Barn — (unnamed?) road down to houses — Chyngton Way — Arundel Road — Sutton Avenue — Bramber Road — Bramber Lane — East Street — High Street [The Old Boot] — Church Street — Dane Road and back to station.

Appendix 2: Concept map of this book's key ideas

I sketched this concept map as a way of breaking out of a bout of ‘writer's block’ which held up progress on the book during May 2019.