Pedestrianism, [William Bingley] claims, is the most ‘useful’ mode of travel, ‘if health and strength are not wanting.”To a naturalist, it is evidently so; since, by this means, he is enabled to examine the country...

…I shall let [Anne] Wallace put the case herself, at what I think is necessary length:’As travel in general becomes physically easier, faster, and less expensive, more people want and are able to arrive at...

[Robert] Newell’s recommendation of walking is also interesting:’The best way undoubtedly of seeing a country is on foot. It is the safest, and most suited to every variety of road; it will often enable you...

Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur…These factors–the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in the indeterminancies of mobility, the pleasure of travel free from necessity, the notion...

We are happy to observe an increasing frequency of these pedestrian tours: to walk, is, beyond all comparison, the most independent and advantageous mode of travelling; Smelfungus and Mundungus may pursue their journey as they...

I walked slowly on, without envying my companions on horseback: for I could sit down upon an inviting spot, climb to the edge of a precipice, or trace a torrent by its sound. I descended...

I hope that the examples I have given have gone some way towards demonstrating that pedestrian touring in the later 1780s and the 1790s was not a matter of a few ‘isolated affairs’, but was...

[William] Coxe expresses…both the pedestrian’s advantage of complete freedom of movement, and the inspiring effect of the combination of continual change of scene with maximum time for appreciation that characterises the mobile gaze of the...

…moderate social deviance or class non-conformism I have imputed to the first generation of pedestrians. Improved roads, after all, were one of the principal means by which the country was building a national communications network...