Routes
WALK: far reaching views across the valley
7:30am Friday 28th September 2018
KNIPE Scar is a rarely visited feature above Bampton, near Penrith, writes JOHN EDMONDSON. A walk along its mile-long terrace is rewarded by far reaching views across the valley to Haweswater Reservoir and the surrounding fells. Remains of a stone circle indicate that this was once the site of an ancient settlement. The villages of Bampton Grange and Bampton make this an attractive area for a walk. You might also be interested in how some of the places got their names.
WALK: following in the footsteps of founding father
7:27am Friday 17th August 2018
Sedbergh Quaker Trail
WALK: undulating walk through woodlands and alongside water
7:10am Friday 10th August 2018
EXPLORE some of the woodlands, waters, settlements and twisting roads that make Rusland a special place, writes JOHN EDMONDSON. This undulating walk goes through woodlands and alongside Windermere before visiting Satterthwaite, Rusland Church and High Dam. It never goes high, but the ups and downs make it quite strenuous.
WALK: valley that inspired poetic voice of a great Romantic
7:37am Friday 3rd August 2018
WILLIAM Wordsworth called the Duddon Valley "one of the most beautiful streams of his native county," and it inspired him to write 34 sonnets, writes JOHN EDMONDSON. Here is a walk in two parts that can be enjoyed as individual walks of 3.5 and four miles or joined together into a figure of eight. The first part is a wander around Wallowbarrow and the second visits Birks Bridge.
WALK: quiet pastoral valley dotted with old barns and farms
7:20am Friday 6th July 2018
Dent and Deepdale
WALK: popular Wainwright that combines fell climb with visit to beautiful tarn and waterfall
7:29am Friday 22nd June 2018
Loughrigg Fell, Tarn and Falls
WALK: woodlands, sheep pastures and wildfowl
7:43am Friday 15th June 2018
THE Forest of Bowland area is only an hour's drive from Kendal and has plenty of places to walk, writes JOHN EDMONDSON. This walk starts in Gisburn Forest and makes a circuit of Stocks Reservoir. For most of the way it follows a waymarked trail so navigation is easy. The route goes through woodlands and sheep pastures and there are opportunities to spot wildfowl on the reservoir.
WALK: explore attractive countryside overlooked by Whinfell Beacon
7:34am Friday 1st June 2018
Grayrigg Whinhowe
