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England's Canyonlands
Nestled between the Chilterns and the chalk downs of Kent, it’s the walking area nobody talks about much [1100 words, 5 mins
Sep 3
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Ronald Turnbull
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Is Lakeland a Bourgeois Piano?
WH Auden’s query from 1952 is a tricky one to answer. [1250 words 5 mins
Aug 27
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Ronald Turnbull
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The finest bit of Lakeland Writing so far
For any freelancer writing stuff about the Lake District hills today, it’s hard not to be intimidated by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Moss…
Jul 9
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Ronald Turnbull
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Juniper
Lakeland's typical tree
May 7
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Ronald Turnbull
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Charles Dickens climbs Carrock Fell
Carrock being a 2174ft high hill in the Lake District. Meanwhile Wilkie Collins is doing all he can to keep up ... [1200 words 5 mins
Feb 19
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Ronald Turnbull
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Tuff love
Getting passionate about volcanic ash [1100 words 5 mins
Oct 2, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
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A study in Skiddaw
Skiddaw, England’s 4th-highest hill, is about to become its highest nature reserve. [1500 words 6 mins
Sep 18, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
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The Hanging Gardens of Helvellyn
Wild flowers? Lakeland grows nothing but grass... [1300 words 6 mins
Aug 14, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
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Otley the Clock
and the first ascent of Sharp Edge on Blencathra [1200 words 5 mins
Jun 26, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
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Ladies of Lakeland
Not all of the first fellwalkers were beardie blokes. Let’s celebrate Dorothy, co-inventor of English Romanticism; her friend Mary; Mary’s maid Agnes…
Jan 17, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
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The 18th Century Art of Landscape Appreciation
The strange craze for looking at England in a distorting mirror, backwards. [1400 words: 6 mins
Dec 27, 2023
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Ronald Turnbull
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