Mark Porter (writer)
Mark Porter (born 16 December 1960) is a Walsall-born France-based travel writer and publisher. Porter is the author of ''Coast to Coast Cycle Routes'' (), a guide book to three of Britain's most popular cycle routes, all of which travel through the Lake District and Northern England, now in its 16th edition. He also wrote ''Grand Tour'', a guide to Paris, Rome, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Cardiff for followers of the Six Nations Championship, Six Nations rugby championships (), and ''Tartan Army Tour Guide to Europe'' () for Scottish football fans. A former features editor of the ''Sunday Express'' after a colourful 'career' in Fleet Street, Fleet St, Porter is a freelance contributor to the ''Daily Mail'', ''Newsweek'', ''Standpoint (magazine), Standpoint'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Herald (Glasgow), The Herald'' of Glasgow, and ''Cycle (magazine), Cycle'' he now writes regularly for the French political magazine, Causeur'. A regular visitor to the Scottish Borders, Porter's t ...
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Walsall
Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands County, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located north-west of Birmingham, east of Wolverhampton and from Lichfield. Walsall is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Walsall. It was transferred from Staffordshire to the newly created West Midlands County in 1974. At the 2011 census, the town's built-up area had a population of 67,594, with the wider borough having a List of English districts by population, population of 269,323. Neighbouring settlements in the borough include Darlaston, Brownhills, Pelsall, Willenhall, Bloxwich and Aldridge. History Early settlement The name Walsall is derived from "Walhaz, Walh halh", meaning "valley of the Welsh", referring to the Celtic Britons, British who first lived in the area. However, it is believed that a manor was held here by William Fitz-An ...
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