Saturday, 31 May 2014
Fell Guides: Lank Rigg and Latrigg
Quiet Lank Rigg in the western fells and busy Latrigg overlooking Keswick from the foot of Skiddaw are today's fells.
Saturday, 24 May 2014
Fell Guides: King's How and Knock Murton
Two of the lower fells today - the delightful King's How at the Jaws of Borrowdale and Knock Murton, one of the fells surrounding Cogra Moss.
Sunday, 18 May 2014
Fell Guides: Irton Pike and Kentmere Pike
Two very different 'pikes' today - Irton Pike, which ends the long ridge of high ground south of Wast Water and Kentmere Pike, a rare example of a fell that takes its name from a valley without being at its head.
Sunday, 11 May 2014
Yorkshire Wolds
The Yorkshire Wolds
are perhaps the most scenic area in England without any legal
protection, a area of chalk downs with wide open uplands cut into by
winding steep sided valleys.
Fell Guides: Illgill Head and High Street
Two rather different fells today - High Street, the highest fell east of the Kirkstone Pass and Illgill Head, one of the fells above the Wastwater Screes.
Lastingham Abbey
Lastingham Abbey
went through two incarnations. It was originally founded in 651-655
during the early days of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, and was
ruled by St. Cedd and then his brother St. Chad. This abbey was ruined
by 1066, and a new abbey was founded on the same site in around 1078 by
monks from Whitby, but this second foundation was very short-lived
and the monks had moved to York by 1086.
Sunday, 4 May 2014
Fell Guides: Helvellyn and High Spy
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