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Travel on the 505 bus from Ambleside to alight at Hawkshead and walk the six miles back via Blelham Tarn, Wray Castle and Clappersgate. In the summer months a launch plies between Waterhead, Brockhole and Wray landing stages, giving an alternative means of completing the walk.

14th January – Reflecting on a walk I did last week when the snow was lovely on the tops. I walked from Station Coppice request bus stop opposite The Swirls car park. Wandering down the eastern shore of Thirlmere to the dam. Turning right by High bridgend to cross the lovely footbridge over St John’sContinue reading “Thirlmere Green Walk”

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Wednesday 22nd September I attended the formal opening of the Silcroft to Whitehaven stretch of the England Coast Path project at St Bees. It is Natural England’s proud boast that when completed the entire England Coast Path will be the longest long distance path in the world. Currently 70 miles of the Cumbria path isContinue reading “England Coast Path”

Monday 20th September my wife and I took an afternoon window of opportunity to visit Burgh-by-Sands and Drumburgh on the now quite lost course of Hadrian’s Wall. Stones of which can be found in St Michael’s, the parish church of Burgh, set upon the Roman Fort of Aballava (place of the apple trees). Drumburgh CastleContinue reading “Burgh-by-Sands and Drumburgh Castle”

Sunday 19th September promised glorious sunshine in Galloway a golden opportunity not to be missed for a road trip that turned on Newton Stewart. En route, short of Creetown, my wife and I called in at the two Neolithic chambered cairns called Cairn Holy I and II. The setting is gorgeous, but more impressive areContinue reading “Cairn Holy in Galloway”