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Category Archives: Drove roads
A Fosdyke Saga
HERE’S an interesting fact. Fosdyke Wash, which is a beach at the mouth of the River Welland, in Lincolnshire, is the nearest strip of coast to the most inland point of Great Britain. In other words, there is a place … Continue reading
Posted in Camping, Drove roads, Environment, Footpaths, Hiking, Rivers, The Romans, Walking, Weather
Tagged Norfolk Coast Path, outdoors
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Days Like These, No 9: Clearing the Mind on the Cluanie Ridge
THERE are mornings I wake up with a head full of heaviness and pull the flysheet back to reveal an outside world full of more heaviness. Today is one of those mornings. Fog fills Strath Croe. Trees drip drumbeats of … Continue reading
Posted in Camping, Climbing, Drove roads, Environment, Hiking, Mountains, Walking, Weather
Tagged Munros, outdoors, Scotland, The Munros
25 Comments
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
Tagged outdoors, Pennines
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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
15 Comments
A Pennine Trek, Part 1 – Moorland and Mustard Gas
The first stage of a three-day walk from Bowes to Hexham . . . Continue reading
Posted in Allotments, Camping, Charles Dickens, Climbing, Drove roads, Environment, Explosives, Footpaths, Hiking, History, Mountains, Northern Echo, Pennine Way, Running, Second World War, Walking, Writing
Tagged outdoors, Pennines, WPLongform
27 Comments
Day Return to Bloworth Crossing . . . and Beyond
A walk along the mineral railways of the North York Moors . . . Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Climbing, Drove roads, Environment, Footpaths, Hiking, History, Industrial archaeology, Mountains, Railways, Walking
Tagged North York Moors, outdoors, Pennines
25 Comments
Hambleton Hills – A Walk and a Sonnet
I’VE been delving into Wordsworth again – and like last time I’m going to set him tentatively aside. Despite the pertinent fact he wrote a sonnet entitled Composed After a Journey Across the Hambleton Hills – and that’s where I … Continue reading
Posted in Camping, Climbing, Drove roads, Environment, Hiking, History, Mountains, Walking, William Wordsworth
Tagged North York Moors
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Beinn Dearg – A Teenage Dream
I LIKE Beinn Dearg. It’s a mountain with character way out in the backcountry. And I like the sound it makes when people pronounce its name correctly. It’s like the call of a bird or the noise of a rock … Continue reading
Posted in Climbing, Cycling, Drove roads, Environment, Hiking, History, Mountains, Walking
Tagged Cairngorms, Lake District, Munros, outdoors, Scotland, The Lakes, The Munros
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The Green Trod – A Walk Along a Drove Road
THERE are little doorways in our perception of the world and they open and close unexpectedly to keep us on our toes. I’m walking through Teesdale, across a plateau of bog and heather above the river Tees, when I behold … Continue reading
Posted in Drove roads, Environment, Hiking, History, Mountains, Walking
Tagged outdoors, Pennines
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