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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
14 hrs ago
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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
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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
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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
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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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