Walking Weekends: Lake District
24 Circular Walks from 12 Villages Throughout the English Lake District
Published on 31. March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-902001-13-5 (ISBN)
Description
Features 24 superb circular walks from 12 villages throughout the Lake District, with two walks of varying lengths from each village, including a mountain walk and a lower level valley walk - ideal for a weekend break. Many people enjoy going away for a weekend, staying at a traditional Lakeland pub and then using the pub as a base from which to explore the surrounding countryside on foot. This new guidebook makes this weekend away experience a whole lot easier with details of where to stay, local inns, background information and historical points of interest. An ideal book for people wanting to spend a weekend of great walking in the Lake District. Featured villages include: Ambleside, Boot (Eskdale), Braithwaite, Buttermere, Coniston, Glenridding, Grasmere, Great Langdale, Keswick, Patterdale, Rosthwaite and Wasdale. Book 3 in the Walking Weekends series by highly acclaimed outdoor writer and publisher Mark Reid, who has combined his knowledge of the villages, pubs and footpaths of the Lake District to create this new and unique book.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Harrogate
United Kingdom
Illustrations
12 line drawings, 24 hand-drawn maps, 4 pages of colour photographs
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-902001-13-5 (9781902001135)
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Mark Reid is the author of "The Inn Way" series of walking guidebooks (www.innway.co.uk), which chart long distance circular walks throughout England's North Country, as well as the "Walking Weekends" series of guidebooks. Mark writes regular articles concerning walking and the outdoors for several newspapers and magazines including Country Walking, Yorkshire Post, Northern Echo and Dalesman. Mark also operates www.teamwalking.co.uk where he takes corporate groups out hill-walking for team building, training and development and also delivers navigation skills weekend courses.