Walk your commute and reconnect with a wilder landscape

Andrew Allen walked from London to Cambridgeshire to raise money for Rewildling Britain and got a new insight into the places he travelled through on the train every day, reports Rewilding Britain

You should walk home from work. Last week I did exactly this - a four day journey to connect me with places I commute through every week and to raise money for Rewilding Britain. I found landscapes empty not just of plant and animal diversity, but of people - an environment fenced, tamed and emasculated. It is not just Britain's uplands that need rewilding, it's the places on our doorstep, too.

I spend a lot of time on trains. A combination of cultish property prices and my narrow career path mean I regularly commute the 80 miles between east Cambridgeshire and London. I am not alone. The capital's coarse roots have spread across much of south east England, with the rail network alone pouring over a million people into London each day.