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Crimson Pathfinder Walking Book - Lake District West and Southwest
Write a review The dales of western Lakeland are breathtakingly beautiful, rich in flora and fauna, wild moors, craggy heights, hidden dales and sundry secret ways, but they suffer from relative inaccessibility; there is no passage, other than on foot, through the middle of the Lakes to get into Wasdale, or Ennerdale (where, in any case, traffic is forbidden), although one early map of the region does rather ambitiously show a motor road crossing to Sty Head and down into Wasdale. Yet, for the walker, Ennerdale, Wasdale and Eskdale are as delectable as anywhere else, and arguably more so. It was in Wasdale that the early pioneers of Lakeland rock climbing came to cut their teeth, and, in a few sad instances, to die. By comparison, the Coniston fells, being much more accessible, are as popular as any in the Lake District. Between the two, one of Lakeland's hidden gems is to be found, Dunnerdale, the valley of the River Duddon. The river rises on Cold Pike and Pike o'Blisco above Langdale, but by the time it passes Cockley Beck in Wrynose Bottom, and changes direction to head for the sea, it has started to fashion the most breathtaking of dales, flanked by comparatively low fells, but summits that have great appeal and unrivalled views. This and the mosses north-west of Coniston Water is the home of early man, who lived on the high moors of Torver, Blawith and Monk Coniston. For these early settlers their main interest lay in the extensive woodlands, a great B&Q storehouse from which to build their homes, construct weapons and tools. In the early 12th century, much of the area, known as Furness, was given to a colony of monks from the Norman-French abbey at Savigny. They founded an abbey at Furness, and in 1143 resisted the parent abbey's move to the Cistercian Order, for which the abbot, Peter of York, was captured and held in France, becoming a most worthy monk and learning the Cistercian Order. It was the influence of the abbey that shaped much of the landscape we see today around Coniston, for it was the monks, rather than settling Scandinavians, who cleared most of the forest to make charcoal to fire the bloomeries for the copper mines and to develop grazing for sheep. Only with the opening of the Furness Railway in 1859, originally intended for more efficient transportation of copper and slate, did tourism begin. By the time author and art critic John Ruskin came to the live on the shores of Coniston Water, tourism was well established; Keswick and Ambleside had a host of new and old hotels, while a complete new town had developed at Windermere, a town of hotels, lodging-houses, inns and shops. The west and the south has a distinct feeling of entree about it. This is the way people used to access the region. In the days before motorways, trunk roads and, for that matter, anything resembling a passable highway, visitors would reach the area across the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay, arriving at Grange and Cartmel, where the bodies of many who failed to beat the incoming tide lie buried, including, from 1577 'One little mann Rownd faced wch was Drouned at Grainge'. Out on the coast, Whitehaven has a long legacy as a seaport from which coal was conveyed from the West Cumbrian mines mainly of the Lowther family; while nearby St Bees is the traditional landing site of St Bega, who came from Ireland and developed a priory here. When the heart of Lakeland is beating to the rhythm of ten thousand feet, the pace of life in the west and south is much more relaxed, and the moors and mosses repose in stark but complimentary contrast to the highest fells in England.

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Crimson Pathfinder Walking Book - Lake District Eastern
This new regional Lake District guide to walks in the Eastern Lakeland brings you the best 28 walks in this Lake District region. Covering Ullswater, Haweswater and Shap, these walks take you amongst the most stunning scenery in the north and west of the Lake District offering walking routes for all abilities.

The Lake District attracts visitors from all around the world; more than 12 million visitors each year arrive to see the outstanding quality of the landscape. The lakes are but one ingredient in the landscape of the Lake District. The fells, which include the highest summit in England, along with the valleys, the towns and villages – almost 400 of them – make up the stunning scenery and picturesque towns that draw in the crowds of walkers.

Pathfinder Guides are Britain’s best loved walking guides. They are the perfect companion for country walks throughout Britain. Each title features 28 circular walks with easy-to-follow route descriptions, all tried and tested by seasoned walkers. The routes range from extended strolls to exhilarating hikes, so there is something for everyone.

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Crimson Pathfinder Walking Book - The High Fells of Lakeland
Inside Pathfinder® Guide to the High Fells of Lakeland are 20 majestic and challenging fell walks amid the glorious scenery of the Lake District mountains with clear and easy-to-follow route directions compiled from the author's 40 years’ experience of Lakeland walking.

For adventurous ramblers and walkers wanting a hill-walking challenge, this brand new Pathfinder® walking guide features 20 demanding day-walks in the mountains of the Lake District, from Scafell Pike (highest mountain in the Lake District), to Helvellyn, Skiddaw, Great End and Bowfell – all over 900m (nearly 3000 feet) high.

Giving a detailed guide to 20 inspiring expeditions on the high fells of Lakeland, Pathfinder® Guide to the High Fells of Lakeland explores some of the best fell walking country in the Lake District. With views over to Buttermere, Derwentwater and Grasmere, the Lakeland Fells offer some of the most superb experiences of the Lake District for the adventurous walker and Pathfinder® Guide to the High Fells of Lakeland allows ramblers to easily enjoy these mountain views with clear, large-scale Ordnance Survey route maps and GPS waypoints to help you navigate your walk with ease.

If you’re a walker who really wants to make the most of what Wainwright described as the ‘splendid walking country’ of the Lake District, make sure you don’t set off on your fell walk without a copy of Pathfinder® Guide to the High Fells of Lakeland in your rucksack.

Pathfinder® Guides are Britain’s best loved walking guides. Made with durable covers, they are the perfect companion for countryside walks throughout Britain. Each title features circular walks with easy-to-follow route descriptions, tried and tested by seasoned walkers and accompanied by beautiful photography and clear, large-scale Ordnance Survey mapping

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Crimson Pathfinder Walking Book - Lake District North & West
Write a review No grouping of fells can ever be entirely satisfactory, but in this arrangement of walks, the reader is invited to explore a part of the Lake District that is for the most part comparatively little known, certainly compared with the honeypots that flank the central thrust from Windermere northwards to Keswick. The northern fells comprise two principal mountains i?? Skiddaw and Blencathra i?? that conceal a rash of lesser summits behind them, in the silent area known as Back o' Skidda'. And it is easy to see how appropriate was Southey's reference to 'My neighbour Skiddaw', for nowhere in Britain does a mountain so dominate a town as Skiddaw does Keswick, looming above the town like a benevolent old giant. And 'old' is especially apposite, for the rocks of Skiddaw are by far the most ancient in the Lake District. On a good day, in spite of evident and significant ascent, the walk up Skiddaw is something that can be appreciated by everyone, and will reward everyone with a keen sense of achievement. Blencathra by contrast is a summit on which you could roam for a week, ascending each day by a different route to its summit. Together Skiddaw and Blencathra rest like huge sleeping policemen to what lies beyond. Here there is the vast wilderness of Skiddaw Forest and the Uldale and Caldbeck Fells, a wild, intriguing place, unique in Lakeland, a place of wide, smooth-sided valleys, broad grass and heather uplands, and boggy flats more akin to the Pennines than Lakeland. This is a true forest of olden times, but more latterly a forest in the sense of a sporting reserve for nobility and kings. It is now a virtually treeless landscape, completely uncultivated and often demanding excellent navigational technique. These northern fells were the hunting territory of John Pell, born in Caldbeck in 1776 and celebrated in song in his own lifetime, and they are one of the few places in Lakeland were solitude can be enjoyed in abundance. The area vaguely called the north-western fells reaches westwards from Bassenthwaite lake and Derwent Water to embrace to lonely summits of Whinlatter and the lakes of Buttermere and the Vale of Lorton. Whinlatter in particular has seen extensive development of its great forest for recreational use, yet there remains just beyond its boundaries an area of soft, moulded fells that slip quietly down to the sea. Great fells there are, too, and the walks in this book visit as many as space reasonably allows, consistent with a desire to encourage walkers to explore less popular highways and byways. Nowhere is more intimate and appealing that the lower Newlands valley, nor anywhere more magnificent for the walker than the fells than surround it. A visit to Loweswater takes walkers in a clockwise direction for no reason other than the fact that to walk anti-clockwise leads first to the shores of Loweswater's lake, with a very real degree of probability that you would go no further, so enchanting is the lake and the woodlands of Holme Wood beside it. The same will be said of the other regions visited in this series of books, but among the north-western fells there is a relaxing sense of ease and contentment that is almost tangible.

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Crimson Pathfinder Walking Book - Lake District Central
No attempt to gather fells into convenient groups can ever be entirely satisfactory. The Lake District does not lend itself to neat division, but in this arrangement of walks, the reader is invited to explore a delectable part of the District that is for the most part comparatively little known, although you will encounter many other discerning walkers who share your vision. The central south-north thrust of Lakeland is clear enough; it runs from Plumgarth on the outskirts of Kendal, by way of Windermere and Ambleside up to Grasmere. A pedant would insist that it continues further, north through the valley occupied by Thirlmere, to the outskirts of Keswick. But a line had to be drawn somewhere, and it lay across Dunmail Raise. Reaching westwards from Ambleside runs the valley of Great Langdale, its great headwall of Crinkle Crags and Bowfell providing a perfect complement to the iconic Langdale Pikes. And Great Langdale merely provides an excuse, if one were needed, to venture over into Little Langdale, and by a tenuous link to the wooded farmlands around Hawkshead. Some excursions are made to the east of the central thrust, but only tentatively, as this area falls for the most part in another volume. Geologically, but in very simple terms that no geologist would find acceptable, the area covered in this book reaches from the limestone country in the south, to the great craggy fells of the Borrowdale Volcanic Series of rocks that so please the ardent rock climbers. It is a dramatic contrast: the limestone provides gently undulating landscapes mottled by hummocky terrain that is a pleasure to explore. The harder rocks present a different challenge, and an altogether dissimilar scene, one of steep cliffs, crag-girt fell summits and myriad rocky ways. This volume takes you on an exploration of this marvellous landscape.

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