Jack Cornish is a walker, an artist, and a Londoner. He works for the Ramblers charity, working to protect and expand the places people love to walk and promote walking for health and pleasure. Jack has walked the length of Britain and is slowly walking every single street in London. In his spare time Jack works on his art and mixes gin cocktails.

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https://www.jackfcornish.com
@cornish_jack
The Ramblers: https://www.ramblers.org.uk/
Cyclists Special trains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP1KxPjh4RM
Rough Stuff Archive: https://www.instagram.com/rsfarchive/
140,000 miles of footpaths in England and Wales. 10,000 miles are in danger of being lost forever – https://www.ramblers.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/dont-lose-your-way-2026.aspx
2026 is the deadline for recording all these paths.
Slow Ways network – https://ravenellison.com/portfolio/slow-ways/
National Library of Scotland maps collection – https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/
Know Your Place map – http://www.kypwest.org.uk/explore-the-map/
Layers of London map – https://www.layersoflondon.org/map?layers=true
Where’s the Path – https://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm
People tackling every single street – https://www.everysinglestreet.com/others
Walked Land’s End to John O’Groats as he didn’t know Britain very well
The variety of every day in Britain surprised him
Loved the Solway Firth – a surprising unknown
Walking every street in London – it’s chipping away rather than a concentrated period of exploration
Walking the city becomes part of living the city
Recording it on Google Maps and an A to Z map
Putting together a Google map of people doing similar around the world
Cycling every street of London – http://davis.vilums.me/all-the-streets/
Walking every street in New York – https://imjustwalkin.com/
Rickey Gates – running SF – http://www.rickeygates.com/everysinglestreet
94 year old walks every suburban street in Sydney – https://www.walksydneystreets.net/
London is a very green city – 47% green or blue
Living Streets – https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/?campaign=wtsw&source=adwords&gclid=Cj0KCQjw0rr4BRCtARIsAB0_48PVDxvVcow2S-tO6fmK35Mnr3G8p-j-xTFtKs2DQ6_aorpyFDyzSyIaAm0kEALw_wcB
Jack’s popular / Alan Partridge Twitter thread – https://twitter.com/cornish_jack/status/1281658401366450177
Why do you need to travel round the world when you can walk around Lewisham?
Walking 2020 miles in 2020 (after doing 2019 miles in 2019)
Jack’s art – https://www.jackfcornish.com/
The binary choice of Adventure OR Office Job is foolish
Favourite cocktail: Dirty Martini
Favourite gin: Plymouth Gin
A heavy bottomed glass for a heavy bottomed drink