MY FAVOURITE VIEW... From the top of the Skirrid, Monmouthshire

Television presenter and naturalist Kate Humble’s go-to walk, up the Skirrid mountain in Wales, shows off the surrounding landscape at its finest

Living in the Wye Valley, I am incredibly spoilt as far as views are concerned, but there’s something extra special about the world from the summit of a little mountain called the Skirrid, or Ysgyryd Fawr in Welsh. Also known as the Holy Mountain, there are lots of lovely myths and legends around it, and Owen Sheers wrote the most beautiful poems inspired by it. Whether I’m with friends, my husband or just my dog, I tend to walk the same way up, winding my way through the woods at the base of the mountain, rather than going the more popular direct route. This way, I get a backwards helter-skelter view of the landscape as I start to climb, and I get to see it changing as I get higher. It’s…

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Country Homes & Interiors (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2019

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