Lady Anne’s Way 100m (160km) by Alan Southworth his male heirs, this injustice was felt very deeply both by Lady Anne and her mother and in future years would be a bone of contention between Lady Anne and her husbands, it marked a turning point in her life and she spent the next thirty eight years trying to regain her inheritance. She was married twice, firstly to Richard Sackville Earl of Dorset who died in 1624 and then six years later to Philip Herbert Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, the second marriage was not a happy one and after four and a half years they quarrelled and subsequently lived apart. The Earl of Pembroke died in1650 and the year after Lady Anne left the south of England forever, it had been her home since childhood but in 1643 she had at last come into her rightful inheritance and now was the time to return to the county of her birth and set her houses in order.
This long-distance walk begins in Skipton in North Yorkshire and ends in Penrith, Cumbria and follows the route taken by Lady Anne Clifford during her time she spent until her death maintaining and restoring the properties and castles owned by the Clifford family.
Lady Anne Clifford was the last in line of that great family the Cliffords who owned vast estates extending from Skipton in Craven to Brougham in Westmorland (Now Cumbria). She was born in Skipton castle and was the only surviving child of George Clifford 3rd Earl of Cumberland and his wife Margaret Russell, on her father's death she failed to inherit the estate which passed to her uncle and - 59 -
