Lake District Walking Holidays

The English Lake District is one of the most popular destinations for walkers, especially hillwalkers, in the country. My new site now has a section to help plan your Lake District walking holiday.

Included in that section of the bookstore are books that give good advice on how to walk safely in the hills. See this article on the site blog on avoiding a fate as a statistic of the mountain rescue service. Walk safely.

Cumbria West and North

It is no insult to the Lake District to say that often I wish when reading about Cumbria there was less emphasis on the central Lake District locations and more attention given to the outer areas of the county. They get a rough deal.

In the past I've blogged about the Eden Valley but yesterday I spent part of the day visiting Workington, Maryport and Cockermouth. I have to say that the Workington visit was not too successful as the place I wanted to see was closed. My walk around Maryport harbour area, though, was very enjoyable as was a visit to the Senhouse Roman Museum.

I'll be writing more about it shortly but last night wrote a short piece on Cockermouth on the Around-England blog.

Lake District Guide Books

Since popular tourism developed in the nineteenth century there have been many Lake District guide books published. Today there is a wide range to choose from. I've put a a selection on my "Lake District in Books" site.

Click here: Lake District Guide Books

This is just one of the sections on the site. In addition to the main book pages there is also a blog with brief reviews of other Lake District books most of which are now out of print.

Kirkby Lonsdale and Derwentwater

In the past couple of days, following a brief break during introduction of the new site layout, I've returned to posting on the main Around-England blog. The first was a photo-walk in Kirkby Lonsdale, including the beautiful view of the Lune Valley so highly praised by John Ruskin in the 1870s and nowadays known as Ruskin's View.

The second refers to a walk by Derwentwater yesterday evening. I posted a photo immediately on returning home. It was a beautiful Lake District evening, yet another example of the unpredictability of Cumbrian weather, this time for the better; yesterday morning I could not have predicted that my wife and I would have been strolling by the water's edge in evening sunshine.