The Lakes Magazine - Spring 2020 Edition

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Alfred Wainwright A love-letter to the Lakeland’s Friendly Hills On the bookshelf of many walkers’ homes and in cafes across the Lake District are ‘Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells’, by A. Wainwright. They were one man’s love-letter’ to what he called the ‘Lakeland’s friendly hills’. But who was Alfred Wainwright and why have his pictorial guides become so synonymous with the Lake District?

10 View from Orrest Head


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