OUR NETWORK
Levison Wood is a Sunday Times best-selling author and photographer who led expeditions and been sent on assignments in over 100 countries. He has published eight best-selling books and produced six critically acclaimed documentaries which have been seen by millions around the world.
He has walked 8000 miles along the Nile, the Himalayas and Central America, circumnavigated the Arabian Peninsula, and trekked across Botswana with a herd of wild Elephants. Levison is an Officer in the British Army having served in the Parachute Regiment for 13 years. Levison is an elected Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club in New York.
Levison will help promote the Western Front Way as a walk, and its values of commemoration, education and well being.
LEVISON WOOD
AMBASSADOR‘Passing on the history of the First World War has been done in poetry, and stories, in music and museums, and in plays and films. But here is a new way, to my mind the most beautiful way, most significant way, the creation of a path of peace, The Western Front Way.
An inspired idea, originally proposed in a letter from the Front by one of those who died in that war. It was that No Mans Land, where so many millions had died on all sides, should be transformed into a path of peace, stretching from the Swiss Border all the way to the English Channel, some 1000km.
We will all be able to see that a landscape so utterly destroyed has recovered, that where there was enmity there is now friendship, and that we can walk there now in peace.’
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SIR MICHAEL MORPURGO
AMBASSADORLevison Wood is a Sunday Times best-selling author and photographer who led expeditions and been sent on assignments in over 100 countries. He has published eight best-selling books and produced six critically acclaimed documentaries which have been seen by millions around the world. He has walked 8000 miles along the Nile, the Himalayas and Central America, circumnavigated the Arabian Peninsula, and trekked across Botswana with a herd of wild Elephants. Levison is an Officer in the British Army having served in the Parachute Regiment for 13 years. Levison is an elected Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club in New York. Levison will help promote the Western Front Way as a walk, and its values of commemoration, education and well being.
LEVISON WOOD
AMBASSADOR‘Passing on the history of the First World War has been done in poetry, and stories, in music and museums, and in plays and films. But here is a new way, to my mind the most beautiful way, most significant way, the creation of a path of peace, The Western Front Way.
An inspired idea, originally proposed in a letter from the Front by one of those who died in that war. It was that No Mans Land, where so many millions had died on all sides, should be transformed into a path of peace, stretching from the Swiss Border all the way to the English Channel, some 1000 km.
We will all be able to see that a landscape so utterly destroyed has recovered, that where there was enmity there is now friendship, and that we can walk there now in peace.’
SIR MICHAEL MORPURGO
AMBASSADOR“Today Ypres makes every effort to recall and preserve the memory of the many war victims. Visit Ypres is both honoured and enthusiast to be a partner of the Via Sacra Western Front Way.”
YPRES
PARTNER“All comes together in Nieuwpoort, the terminus or starting point of The Western Front Way – Via Sacra“
NIEUWPOORT
PARTNER“Our rich history can be found throughout the whole town and our many charming villages, as well in the Yser Tower Museum and the Trench of Death Museum. Diksmuide is honoured to be a partner of the Via Sacra Western Front Way”
DIKSMUIDE
PARTNER“The Western Front Way provides a unique experience for the user to walk/cycle to witness firsthand the battle scars left from a war fought over a century ago, travel the footsteps of those who sacrificed so much for our peace, and to commit us to never forget.”
VIMY RIDGE
PARTNER“This via sacra project is one of the most creative and moving on the western front, it will develop a new way to visit and discover the battlefields and also remember that all gave some and some gave all. Lest we forget”
SOMME
PARTNER“At the heart of the Somme Battlefields, the Historial, Museum of the Great War presents the full magnitude of the First World War in two museums at Péronne and Thiepval.”
Historial de la Grande Guerre – Peronne
PARTNER“Albert, at the heart of the Somme is a centre for international remembrance and an incomparable place to visit. Throughout Le Pays du Coqeulicot you can find Western Front plaques in place.”
Le Pays du Coquelicot
PARTNER“At the very start, or at the very end of the Western Front Way, Pfetterhouse is immaculate, welcoming and proudly marked with plaques”
Pfetterhouse
PARTNERBadonviller
PARTNERPinon
PARTNER“Cycling the Western Front Way is a profoundly moving experience; a stark reminder of our interconnected histories and an inspiration for our shared future.”
Stephen Farrrant
supporter“The Western Front Way is steeped in dramatic human stories which serve to remind us how fragile and beautiful peace is”
Beth Salt
supporter“The scenery! Sometimes, I’d just stop and stare. The sunsets and the sunrises; cornfields that seemed to go on forever, woodland paths where I’d chop my way through the nettles with my staff.”
Alan Rutter
supporter“A beautiful walking path that unites us whilst we remember the sacrifices of the past”
Tess Tidmarsh
supporterThe Western Front Way welcomes all donations however small. Your generosity will help us to waymark the path in the coming months.
