The Canadian province of Saskatchewan – where Project Pedestrian originates – is 651,036 square kilometres, with a human population just north of 1.2 million. The island of Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) is 209,331 square kilometres, with a human population just over 65.5 million.

Perhaps this explains why there are so many British TV shows devoted to walking; you can walk, knowing you’re never that far from a cafe, pub, inn, railway or bus station.

An incomplete list of British TV shows based around walking, with anorak clad hosts “setting off to…” includes: Tate Britain’s Great Art Walks, Walks Around Britain, Coastal Britain, Wainwright Walks, Britain’s Lost Railways (the host walks around looking for them), Walking Britain’s Roman Roads, and a personal favourite Walking Through History, with Sir Tony Robinson (aka Baldrick from Blackadder), who also had a series where he walks Britain’s Ancient Tracks.

What are your favourites?