The Shepherd’s Round: Cod Beck to Lordstones Country Park

For years now, we’ve been talking about how we would love to tackle one of Britain’s many long distance paths. Top of the list are iconic trails like the Pennine Way and the Coast to…

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A Week in the Lakes, Part Two

Readers of last week’s blog will know that we recently spent a (rather wet and soggy) week in the Lake District. The first half of the week was slightly better weather wise and we did…

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A Week in the Lakes, Part One

Day tripping to the Lakes to bag more Wainwrights has taken a back seat over the last year or so. We’ve reached the point now where we’ve bagged a lot of the peaks which are…

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Birkhouse Moor and Catstye Cam

Trawling back through my photo archives, I found several walks which I’d never gotten around to posting on here. As well as our walks up Great Hangman and Worcester Beacon (among many others), I came…

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Kepwick and the Drove Road

In a similar vein to my frequent declarations that we need to spend more time in the North Pennines, I’m often saying that we need to spend more time in the North York Moors. They…

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Allenheads

Finally, we’ve been making good our intentions to spend more time exploring the North Pennines AONB. After a slightly grey but still enjoyable trip to Cockfield Fell, we headed north again on the early May…

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Cockfield Fell

Time is slipping away at an alarming rate these days. With such lovely weather over the last few months, we’ve been spending as much time as possible outside, but that does mean that the boring…

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