Archive walk: Langdale Pikes

by | Oct 1, 2024 | Latest, Walks

Langdale Pikes First published: February 2011 Start/Finish: LDNP Car Park at New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel (GR: 295 063) Distance: 5 miles/ 7 1⁄2 km Time: 3-4 hours Height Gain: 2,500 ft/ 750 m Terrain: A full-blown fell walk on clear paths with some steep sections of both...

Archive feature: Return of the Swallow

by | Sep 3, 2024 | Features, Latest

Return of the Swallow By Eileen Jones. First published in Cumbria magazine, March 2012 Swallow under sail on Ullswater It was a day when the worlds of fiction and reality overlapped. A small girl, looking very like one of the children in a famous story, paddled in the...

Top 7 Cumbrian breweries

by | Jun 14, 2024 | Our Favourites

The Cumbria and Lakeland Walker team reveal our region’s best breweries Saturday June 15, 2024 will see people across the country raising a glass for Beer Day Britain. Well, we say a huge cheers to that! What will be your beer of choice? Here are the Cumbria and...

Archive walk: Borrowdale and High Spy

by | Apr 23, 2024 | Walks

High Spy with my little eye Keith Wood combines a riverside stroll with an airy ridgewalk to see both faces of Borrowdale   First published: July 2007 Whatever your motivation for walking in the Lake District, be it the sense of achievement of climbing one of the...

Archive walk: Wet Sleddale

by | Mar 19, 2024 | Latest, Walks

Wet Sleddale First published: February 2011 WET Sleddale is a lonely, remote valley which lies south-west of the village of Shap, theM6, the A6 and theWest Coast main railway line. It bisects the Shap Fells and is reached by a long narrow lane that leads from the A6....