Other Places | Reasons to go North

At first the day appeared to be quite civilised. A picturesque train ride to Horton with the plan of walking to Ribblesdale...

Despite the M6 doing its level best to stop me heading south I eventually made it back to my home turf of almost twenty years, south...

After the satisfaction of identifying the South Lakes’ fells I spent the weekend in the slightly more unfamiliar landscape of...

Today I walked over a bridge Through a gate…. Into a wood…. The sun shone …. Through the leaves…… The sky turned black….. and then turned...

Only having lived wedged between the Lakes and the Yorkshire Dales for 18 months, (if you don’t count the first 18 years of my life),...

A new idea for this site! Dave Welch is a trained National Park Ranger, working in the Peak District for for 7 years mainly teaching...