The River Ribble - on "Around-England"

I have uploaded a new post to Around-England.co.uk. Here’s an extract along with a link to the full article.

" This was intended to be a much more extensive post but problems with my desktop computer mean that I seem to have lost the images from photo sessions at Sawley and Ribchester. Here, though, is a recent picture of the much "younger" Ribble at Gargrave. Hopefully I"ll recover the others and expand"

The River Ribble

Ravenstonedale - Twixt Eden and Lune - on "Around-England"

I have uploaded a new post to Around-England.co.uk. Here’s an extract along with a link to the full article.

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I"m still trying to get a decent photograph of the Howgills from the top of Ash Fell. Somehow the weather or the time of day (sun angle) always seems to defeat me. Anyway, here"s my latest and despite its inadequacies I"m using it here to illustrate "Twixt Eden and Lune".

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Ravenstonedale - Twixt Eden and Lune

The Howgills: The Less-Trodden Cumbrian Fells - on "Around-England"

There's another interesting Cumbria post at Around-England.co.uk. Here is a short extract along with a link to the full article.

" The Howgills are much less well known than many of the Cumbrian fells, and yet they"re more accessible than most, being close to the M6 motorway and the towns of Sedbergh and Kendal. Their western slopes are right alongside the motorway as it passes through the Lune Gorge between Junctions 37 and 38. ..."

The Howgills: The Less-Trodden Cumbrian Fells



The photograph here was taken looking west from the Sedbergh to Kirkby Stephen road at Cautley. It shows Cautley Spout in the distance as a dark gash in the snow-covered fellside. Cautley Spout is England"s highest cascade waterfall above ground, tumbling for 198 metres (650 feet). The stream then joins the River Rawthey, a tributary of the River Lune which flows down the western side of the Howgills range.

Interesting Days in East Lancashire - on "Around-England"

I have uploaded a new post to Around-England.co.uk. Here’s an extract along with a link to the full article.

" In my last post here I announced the planned resurrection of the "Around-England" sites after a year"s unavoidable hiatus. Today, then, we start an "East Lancashire season" by referring briefly to a few of the area"s many interesting places in which a visitor (or for that matter a local) can ..."

Interesting Days in East Lancashire