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Category Archives: Death
Gibbet Hill and Carlin Gill – That’s Entertainment
GIBBET Hill has history. Little more than a slope in the Tebay Gorge – which separates the Howgill Fells from the Lake District – it was the site where, in 1684, local villain William Smurthwaite’s body was left to rot … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Climbing, Death, Environment, Footpaths, Hiking, History, Legends, Mountains, Rivers, Running, The Romans, Walking
Tagged Cumbria, Howgill Fells, Lake District, outdoors, The Lakes, transportation
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A Christmas Walk: With Ghosts on Baysdale Moor
I AM wary of the North York Moors because they are more than a little bit sinister. They are wild and empty, peppered with the scratchings of forgotten people, laced with legends, and punctuated with the stumps of ancient crosses … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Captain James Cook, Cleveland Way, Death, Environment, Footpaths, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Hunting, Industrial archaeology, Legends, Mountains, Politics, Ranting, Ruins, Teesside, Walking, Weather
Tagged Cleveland Hills, Mining History, North York Moors, outdoors, WPLongform
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A Cook’s Tour of the Cleveland Hills
CAPTAIN James Cook is one of Britain’s most celebrated maritime heroes. Born to lowly farming folk in the Teesside village of Marton, his destiny lay not in farming – or shopkeeping, to which he was briefly apprenticed – but as … Continue reading
Posted in Camping, Captain James Cook, Cleveland Way, Climbing, Death, Footpaths, Hiking, History, Mountains, Railway goods wagons, Railways, Teesside, Vikings, Walking, Weather
Tagged Cleveland Hills, North York Moors, outdoors, transportation, WPLongform
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Old Roads, a Fallen Lady, St Jude and Thoughts for the Day
A walk through the lead mines of the North Pennines . . . Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Death, Environment, Footpaths, Hiking, History, Industrial archaeology, Life, Mountains, Religion, Rivers, Ruins, Teesdale, Teesside, Walking, Weather
Tagged Cumbria, Lake District, Mining History, outdoors, Pennines, The Lakes, transportation, WPLongform
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Untold Stories of High Haciendas
THE mountains are full of places where people lived, raised families and died. Their children and their children’s children have moved on. All that remains are stones and walls and the imagined echoes of humanity . . .
Posted in Archaeology, Death, Environment, Hiking, History, Life, Mountains, Ruins, Spanish Civil War
Tagged general francisco franco, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Tejeda y Almijara, Spain
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A Pennine Trek, Part 3 – Hell and High Walking
The concluding episode of McEff’s Pennine walk . . . Continue reading
Posted in Camping, Death, Drove roads, Environment, Footpaths, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Mountains, Ranting, Walking
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A Pennine Trek, Part 2 – A Night Beneath Hangman Hill
McEff continues his backpacking trip to Hexham . . . Continue reading
Posted in Camping, Climbing, Death, Drove roads, Environment, Footpaths, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Mountains, Railway goods wagons, Walking, Writing
Tagged outdoors, Pennines, transportation, WPLongform
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Starry, Starry Night
IT’S turned midnight and stars are burning. There’s a smell of autumn in the grass and draughts stir the flysheet. The summer isn’t quite dead but it’s fading. In the deep shades of night, lying still as a stone in … Continue reading
Posted in Beowulf, Camping, Death, Environment, Hiking, Life, Norfolk Broads, Seamus Heaney, Shipping Forecast, Walking, Writing
Tagged outdoors
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London 5: Butchers, Saints and Sinners
BLOWN on a thin wind around a corner from the Barbican tube station past a private park surrounded by private railings to a place where knights once jousted on a meadow called the Smooth Field – which was situated just … Continue reading
South of the Border, Down Cheviot Way
A walk along the boggy border between Scotland and England . . . Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Death, Environment, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Mountains, Railway goods wagons, Railways, Walking
Tagged Lake District, outdoors, Scotland, The Lakes
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Walking the Old Corpse Road – Mardale to Shap
THE last person to leave Mardale feet first for Shap was John Holme, in June 1736. Poor old John was as dead as they come. Whether he was strapped to a packhorse or nailed in a coffin and carried on … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Camping, Corpse roads, Death, Environment, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Mountains, Walking
Tagged Lake District, outdoors, The Lakes
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A Final Voyage
YOU can see Scafell Pike – the highest mountain in England – from the forecourt garden of the terraced house in which I spent my early childhood. From the back garden of the bungalow the family moved to when I … Continue reading
Posted in Camping, Chockhead, Climbing, Death, Hiking, HMS Theseus, Korean War, Life, Mountains, Sanquhar, Walking
Tagged Lake District, outdoors, Scotland, The Lakes
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