Four years and 5,000km - Trevor's mammoth Shropshire ramble
It has taken him more than four years and he has covered more than 5,000km, walking across Shropshire.
Now 68-year-old rambler Trevor Allison has finally completed his mammoth task of attempting to walk all of Shropshire's public rights of way.
After recording the condition of all of these, Mr Allison is now developing a usable database of information regarding the availability of the more than 19,000 sections of rights of way that make up Shropshire's extensive network.
Mr Allison, from Ruyton-XI-Towns, near Shrewsbury, completed his task of walking the rights of way last Friday, arriving at the end of his last route at the Tally Ho Inn, Bouldon, near Craven Arms.
The footpath secretary for the Shropshire Area Ramblers said: "Part of the reason for the project has been to emphasise just how important rural tourism, including of course walking, is to the economy of Shropshire.
"If the physical state of the rights of way network is allowed to deteriorate because the department entrusted with its maintenance is not adequately funded, then the economic benefit to Shropshire of rural tourism will diminish .
"I have only finished the first part of my task, I now have to validate and analyse all my data.
"I have enjoyed the last four years of the project, even if I have found over 1,000 out of 19,000 sections of rights of way unusable for one reason or another.
Over 99 per cent of the county I have reached by public transport as I do not drive.
"For myself I like to be away from it all but to have reasonable long distance views at the same time. So Corvedale between Wenlock Edge and Brown Clee Hill is one of my favourite areas."
