I walked the perimeter of Britain – in pictures

Covering almost 7,000 miles of coast over a period of five years, with only a tent and meagre rations, photographer Quintin Lake set out to capture the beauty of our island nation through all the seasonsI set off from the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral on 17 April 2015, walking east towards Kent before heading west along the south coast. My mission was to walk the perimeter of Britain in order to get under the skin of our island nation – and find photographic inspiration. I’d pre