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Peace How
I’ve climbed up to the High Spy ridge via Knitting Haws using the Public Footpath from the Borrowdale Gates Hotel several times before. I’ve passed just the other side of the holly tree on the right of the photo skirting around and hardly noticing the small ring contour on my right. That small ring contour…
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Derwent Water
A day of dramatic skies and swirling clouds. Who needs fireworks? Derwent Water is the third-largest lake in the Lake District. Derwent Island is its largest island and was once owned by Fountains Abbey. Today it is a National Trust property and is the lake’s only inhabited island. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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Bowscale Tarn
Cirques are giant hollows scooped out of the fellside by glacial ice. They are typically referred to as corries in Scotland, as cwms in Wales and more often as coves or combs in the Lake District. But the cirque in which Bowscale Tarn sits is un-named despite it being arguably the best example of a…
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“Pinfold Cone” by Andrew Goldsworthy
Inspired by the Nine Standards cairns above Kirby Stephen, the artist Andrew Goldsworthy constructed nine cones in a pinfold over the four years he lived at Brough. The nine sculptures are located in various villages around. We found two others, in Warcop and Bolton, but this one in Church Brough must have been one of…
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Cleveland Hills
The Cleveland Hills always look good after a few days away. I still get very irritated when I have to state Middlesbrough as my postal address followed by Cleveland. I can just about cope with a postcode beginning ‘TS…’ but I live in North Yorkshire, I pay my rates to North Yorkshire, not Middlesbrough. And…
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Trusmadoor
Looking down on that distinct cleft of Trusmadoor in the Great Cockup/Meal fell ridge. Wainwright wrote of it: Nobody ever sung the praises of Trusmadoor, and it’s time someone did. This lonely passage between the hills, an obvious and easy way for man and beast and beloved by wheeling buzzards and hawks, has a strange…
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Miller Moss
When the summer of 2018 began it was just an un-named nondescript knoll in the Northern Fells of the Lake District with a spot height on the Ordnance Survey map of 609m. At the end of the summer, it was a nondescript mountain of 610m. Entitling it to be classified as Nuttall, a listing of…
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Fell Ponies, Ullswater
A Cumbrian Fell Pony grazes on the slopes of Moor Divock overlooking Ullswater in the Lake District. They are semi-wild, on the hills all year round. Someone “owns” them, they have a tag on their ears. Standing no more than 14 hands high, shaggy with long knotty manes, Fell Ponies are said to have originated…
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Clain Wood
You don’t see that many hangers of beech in North Yorkshire, its soils are too clayey. They don’t like getting their feet wet preferring dry alkaline soils like the chalk hills of Southern England. In the north, beech is considered a non-native species. The Cleveland Way and Coast to Coast footpaths go through this little…
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Stony Wicks Boundary Stone
A morning run up Scugdale and over to the Lords Stones, where I was to meet my wife. “Did you see the rainbow?”, she asked. Wanting to avoid pedantry I replied I had but I could have said: “no, but I saw a rainbow”. I took a photo of it and this is it. It…
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