2021-05-28 20:40
The River Ribble, close to Sawley Abbey
The River Ribble rises in Yorkshire but comes to maturity in Lancashire. Not long after crossing from the white rose county to the land of the red ros… Read More
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The splendid countryside and interesting places of England, especially the North and its National Parks including the Lake District in Cumbria
2016-01-27 16:22
For centuries Yorkshire was divided into “Ridings”. Then in 1974 a modernising generation of politicians and bureaucrats decided that history had to be replaced by administrative… Read More
2015-10-31 09:59
It’s some time since I put anything on this site about the Lake District (in fact it’s some weeks since I uploaded anything at all!) so although I’ve not forgotten my plan… Read More
2015-08-21 20:52
This was intended to be a much more extensive post but problems with my desktop computer mean that I seem to have lost the images from photo sessions at Sawley and Ribchester. Here, though… Read More
2015-04-23 10:43
I’m still trying to get a decent photograph of the Howgills from the top of Ash Fell. Somehow the weather or the time of day (sun angle) always seems to defeat me. Anyway, here&rsquo&helli…Read More
2015-01-24 16:27
The Howgills are much less well known than many of the Cumbrian fells, and yet they’re more accessible than most, being close to the M6 motorway and the towns of Sedbergh and Kendal. T… Read More
2015-01-06 11:41
In my last post here I announced the planned resurrection of the “Around-England” sites after a year’s unavoidable hiatus. Today, then, we start an “East Lancashire s… Read More
2014-11-15 14:05
After 6½ years here online Around-England is to become the central hub of a small galaxy of websites, both existing and new. Following something of a hiatus from mid-2013 until recent… Read More
2014-10-07 13:05
Kirkby Stephen is a village in the Eden Valley, Cumbria, popular with walkers on the surrounding fells and on the route of the Coast to Coast walk from St. Bees to Robin Hood’s Bay dev… Read More
2014-08-08 11:04
Although published here in August this item was mostly written back in January. As it was sitting here almost finished I decided to publish it now to revive the Around England site in spite… Read More
2013-07-09 16:58
Personal Note:Regular visitors will have noticed the lack of new articles recently. Shortly after this one was published I suffered the first of a series of mini-strokes. Although there is n… Read More
2013-06-04 09:58
Hearings on the proposed extensions of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales national parks start today.
I wrote most of the following on my personal Facebook account earlier this morning an… Read More
2013-05-25 21:27
Starting a short walk by Goldrill Beck and Brothers’ Water this afternoon I was stopped in my tracks by this poster. What was such a gruesome image doing in such a beautiful place?
Th… Read More
2013-05-14 22:16
Today I did another of my photo-drive-walks, returning to Mallerstang for the second week in succession. Last week I did a circular walk between Nateby and Pendragon Castle, taking in Lammer… Read More
2013-05-08 13:46
Yesterday was a beautiful early Spring day in Mallerstang. Yes, I know that in many parts of the country Spring is already well and truly sprung but up here in the North, in a valley whose l… Read More
2013-04-22 10:34
After spending Saturday morning listening to lectures on bridges at a Cumbria Industrial History Society conference I suppose it is appropriate to show a photo from Saturday afternoon of the… Read More
2013-04-21 14:56
Last week as I was driving through Tuxford in Nottinghamshire I couldn’t resist stopping to take a photograph of the old windmill. Its sails were turning just as they must have done a… Read More
2013-04-19 16:08
Anglesey Abbey, a National Trust property near Cambridge, although in parts almost nine hundred years old is in its present form the creation of its more recent owners from the sixteenth ce… Read More
2013-04-19 13:42
En route to a weekend conference in Cambridge last Friday I managed to squeeze in visits to two still-working watermills, both at properties managed by the National Trust. The first, at Houg… Read More
2013-04-02 12:39
Last week I drove to Glenridding, the popular village close to the head of Ullswater in the Lake District. After a walk up the hill behind the village and a retreat as the snow started to co… Read More
2013-03-23 20:53
A very brief item today. I just noticed that I had two photographs taken from almost identical positions (close to Burns Farm at St Johns-in-the-Vale near Keswick) showing Wanthwaite Crags… Read More
2013-02-09 17:49
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a short piece here about Barnard Castle and the Bowes Museum. It occurred to me this morning that, although later last year I visited the nearby village of… Read More
2013-01-21 12:12
This weekend I received a text message from my granddaughter. She was doing a survey about weather for her geography homework. The question was, “Which is your favourite of the followi… Read More
2013-01-15 12:33
It’s time for another news post. I haven’t done one for some time.
Starting with the North West, the big news in recent days has been the Lake District National Park Authority&rs&hell…Read More
2013-01-04 16:42
Leaving Appleby the sun was shining. By Penrith it was raining. At Dalemain it was bright. At Pooley Bridge there was light drizzle. And so it went on, oscillating between bright patches an… Read More
2012-11-03 11:34
Lyvennet Beck flows down from Crosby Ravensworth Fell where it rises close to one of the country’s many “graves of Robin Hood”. After passing Maulds Meaburn and Kings Meabu… Read More
2012-10-30 12:31
Last updated: Feb 9, 2013 @ 17:48
The North of England is rich in scenic landscape, ranging from historic coastlines with fishing villages and castles to mountains, moors and lakes.
Last we… Read More
2012-10-24 20:35
When I was at school way back in the fifties we had a great young biology teacher, “Mr. Douglas” (no first names then!). The school was in a big industrial town but on the fringe… Read More
2012-10-13 09:45
It was back in 2008 that I first wrote on this blog about Britain’s Lost Railways and the old railway station at Keswick, harking back to the days when it was possible to reach the nor… Read More
2012-10-10 18:41
“Around-England” temporarily moved office today to The Rock, Hause Point, Crummock Water. Back in my usual base at Appleby in Westmorland tomorrow morning!… Read More
2012-10-09 19:59
Here is one of my shots from this morning. Until almost eleven o’clock there was quite a mist over the water. This was taken as it lifted… Read More
2012-10-02 20:34
One, if not the, major theme in the Northern news in recent weeks has been flooding. My schoolboy geography lessons told me that the east of the country was drier than the west because the c… Read More
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