I doe more and more fall in Love with the contentments and innocent Pleasures of Countrey Life. – Lady Anne Clifford, Diary, 1652
Cumbria
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Leaving the Dales
“That’s it! Cheese! We’ll go somewhere where there’s cheese!” Wallace, A Grand Day Out (1989)
Rain in the Dales
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing […] wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. – James Herriot
Tingle Factor: Malham Cove
I won’t know for sure if Malhamdale is the finest place there is until I have died and seen heaven (assuming they let me at least have a glance), but until that day comes, it will certainly do. – Bill Bryson
Hail Fellow, Well Met in the Western Dales
“Never thee stop believin’ in th’ Big Good Thing an’ knowin’ th’ world’s full of it – and call it what tha’ likes.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
The Last of the Wuthering Heights
“I wish I were out of doors—I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy […] I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills. Open the window again wide […].” (12.46) – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Dry Moors: Marsden to Hebden Bridge
the touchy fuse-wire
of parched grass,
tapers of bulrush and reed,
any tree
a primed mortar of tinder,
one spark enough to trigger
a march on the moor
by ranks of flame. – Simon Armitage, ‘The Dew Stone’
Rest Day Photo Quiz: Spot the Spoor!
Hikers! Know how to recognise what you are stepping in, with our handy DIY droppings identification brainteaser.
God’s Own Country
The huge music/ Of sightlines,/ From every step of the slopes – Ted Hughes, ‘The Word that Space Breathes’
High Moorland: a Sense of the Scope of the End-to-End trail
The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body. – Alfred Wainwright
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Walking The Landscape 