Alfred Wainwright's coast-to-coast walk starts from which point in Cumbria?
"does not protect enough of the their foraging grounds. The other MCZs in Cumbria are currently: Cumbria Coast Cumbria Coast is one of England's Marine Conservation Zones. It was designated in 2013, and is currently one of three such zones off the coast of Cumbria. The MCZ covers the stretch of sea from Whitehaven down to the mouth of the Ravenglass Estuary. It includes the sea off Sellafield (the nuclear fuel reprocessing and nuclear decommissioning site), and off St Bees Head. The MCZ protects underwater habitats and animals such as the honeycomb worm. St Bees Head is an important breeding"
"Coast to Coast Walk The Coast to Coast Walk is a unofficial and mostly unsignposted long-distance footpath in Northern England. Devised by Alfred Wainwright, it passes through three contrasting national parks: the Lake District National Park, the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the North York Moors National Park. Wainwright recommends that walkers dip their booted feet in the Irish Sea at St Bees and, at the end of the walk, in the North Sea at Robin Hood's Bay. The Coast to Coast was originally described by Alfred Wainwright in his 1973 book ""A Coast to Coast Walk"". Wainwright's book has"
"and is the direction which keeps the prevailing wind and rain at one's back, and the evening sun out of one's eyes. Some walkers do start from the east coast, either because they wish to have the Lake District as the climax of their walk or because they have already walked the route in the conventional direction. Wainwright's route begins at St Bees in Cumbria, on the Irish Sea. It crosses the West Cumbrian coastal plain and the Lake District, and enters North Yorkshire as it crosses the Pennines. It then crosses the Yorkshire Dales, the Vale of York and"
"Alfred Wainwright Alfred Wainwright (""A.W."") MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991) was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume ""Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells"", published between 1955 and 1966 and consisting entirely of reproductions of his manuscript, has become the standard reference work to 214 of the fells of the English Lake District. Among his 40-odd other books is the first guide to the Coast to Coast Walk, a 192-mile long-distance footpath devised by Wainwright which remains popular today. Alfred Wainwright was born in Blackburn, Lancashire into a family which was relatively poor, mostly because"
"Head and Birkhams quarry featured in the May 2012 booklet of the best coastal walks in UK published by the ""Daily Telegraph"" newspaper; it being one of only two walks covered in the north west of England. St Bees is the start of the Wainwright Coast to Coast walk, which was devised by Alfred Wainwright in 1973. It is an unofficial and mostly unsignposted long-distance footpath in Northern England. Devised by Alfred Wainwright, it passes through three contrasting National Parks: the Lake District National Park, the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the North York Moors National Park. Wainwright recommended that"
"walkers dip their booted feet in the Irish Sea at St Bees and, at the end of the walk, in the North Sea at Robin Hood's Bay. At St Bees the start is marked by the ""Wainwright Wall"" which explains the walk and its history. A new interpretation board and the steel banner were installed in summer 2013 by St Bees Parish Council and the Wainwright Society. St Bees St Bees is a coastal village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Copeland district of Cumbria, England, on the Irish Sea. It was originally in the historic county of Cumberland."
"start at the bottom of the last page and work upwards and backwards towards the front of the book. The guide was prepared with the aid of four helpers (Harry Appleyard, Len Chadwick, Cyril Moore and Lawrence Smith) and its preparation was affected by the major outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in 1966 and 1967, which closed access to many of the moors. In 1972 Wainwright devised the east-west Coast to Coast Walk, as an alternative to the north-south Pennine Way. The Coast to Coast, he declares in his guidebook, which follows the same format as the ""Pennine Way"
"Seat Robert Seat Robert is a hill in the east of the English Lake District, south west of Shap, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ""The Outlying Fells of Lakeland"". It reaches , and has a cairn and an Ordnance Survey ""ring"" at ground level rather than the usual trig point column. Wainwright's route is a clockwise circuit from Swindale reaching Seat Robert by way of Langhowe Pike at and Great Ladstones at , and continuing over High Wether Howe at and Fewling Stones and . The first section of his route follows the Old"
"coastal landscape (although it is usually quoted as ), from the mouth of the River Dee, along the north Wales coast with its seaside towns such as Conwy, over the Menai Strait onto the Isle of Anglesey, past Caernarfon, and then around the Llŷn Peninsula and down the sweep of Cardigan Bay past Harlech, Aberystwyth, and Cardigan, through the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park to Tenby, around the Gower Peninsula to Swansea, along the waterfront of Cardiff Bay and Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, to the market town of Chepstow. The whole path is accessible to walkers and, where practical,"
"since been revised a number of times in recent years (most recently in 2003) with updates to the recommended route. Wainwright's book describes the route in 12 stages, each of which ends at a settlement with at least some overnight accommodation nearby. If one stage is walked per day, with one or two rest days, the route makes a two-week holiday, and web logs of coast-to-coasters seem to indicate that this is the most common way of walking the route. However, Wainwright explicitly states that he did not intend people to necessarily stick to these daily stages, or even to"
"in their category"""", and describes the summit as """"attained with a conviction that nobody has ever been there before"""", which conviction is then contradicted by the presence of a small cairn. Ponsonby Fell Ponsonby Fell is a hill in the west of the English Lake District, near Gosforth, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ""The Outlying Fells of Lakeland"". It reaches , and Wainwright's route is an anticlockwise horseshoe starting at Gosforth, following the River Bleng before striking north for the summit, then descending to Wellington from where he recommends taking a bus back to"
"Solway Coast The Solway Coast is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in northern Cumbria, United Kingdom. It incorporates two areas of coastline along the Solway Firth, the first running from just north of the city of Carlisle, at the estuary of the rivers Esk and Eden, in a westerly direction as far as Silloth-on-Solway, including the villages of Bowness-on-Solway, Burgh-by-Sands, Port Carlisle, and Skinburness. The second area begins just north of the hamlet of Beckfoot, and runs south down the coast to the southern end of Allonby Bay near the village of Crosscanonby. Included in this area are"
"his route. For instance, the majority of Wainwright's stages start and end at low level with a single up-down during the day: many walkers split the Borrowdale–Patterdale stage at Grasmere in order to maintain this pattern and avoid having two major uphill sections in one day. Splitting two or three more of the longer stages, and adding a further one or two rest days, reduces the average day-length to 10 or 12 miles and makes the walk a much easier three-week trip with time to ""stand and stare"", an activity much approved of by Wainwright. Although unofficial, the Coast to"
"Suffolk Coast Path The Suffolk Coast Path is a long-distance footpath along the Suffolk Heritage Coast in England. It is long. Previously known as the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Path after the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty through which it runs, the path has been rebranded with new waymarkers bearing the new name. The path runs along river and sea walls, across marsh, heath, foreshore and cliffs. It starts at Felixstowe and ends at Lowestoft , via Bawdsey, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, North Warren, Thorpeness, Minsmere, Dunwich, Southwold and Kessingland. It connects with the Sandlings Walk and"
"splits off from the main route at Consett, following the route of the Derwent Walk, passing through Tyneside and ending at Tynemouth. In 2005 a complementary route was opened further to the south. This, titled the Walney to Wear route (W2W), is designed to be slightly tougher and longer. It runs from Walney Island in south-west Cumbria to Sunderland via the North York Moors and Durham. A number of public artworks have been commissioned for the route, including Tony Cragg's ""Terris Novalis"" at Consett, sheepfolds by Andy Goldsworthy at various points in Cumbria and Alison Wilding's ""Ambit"" in the River"
"Wallow Crag at , a nameless summit at , and Hugh's Laithes Pike at . Naddle Horseshoe The Naddle Horseshoe is a group of summits in the English Lake District, south of Mardale valley, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ""The Outlying Fells of Lakeland"". Wainwright's walk starts at Swindale and ascends Scaleborrow Knott at before making a clockwise circuit of the valley of Naddle Beck (not to be confused with the better known Naddle Beck which runs north to the River Greta near Keswick). His route includes Harper Hills at , Hare Shaw at"
"Crookdale Horseshoe The Crookdale Horseshoe is a group of hills on the eastern edge of the English Lake District, in Cumbria, west of the A6 road. They are the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ""The Outlying Fells of Lakeland"". Wainwright describes an anticlockwise walk starting along the valley of Crookdale Beck (which joins Borrow Beck before flowing into the River Lune) to reach Lord's Seat (one of several English summits of that name, and also known as High House Fell) at , and returning over Robin Hood at and High House Bank at . As he points out,"
"Naddle Horseshoe The Naddle Horseshoe is a group of summits in the English Lake District, south of Mardale valley, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ""The Outlying Fells of Lakeland"". Wainwright's walk starts at Swindale and ascends Scaleborrow Knott at before making a clockwise circuit of the valley of Naddle Beck (not to be confused with the better known Naddle Beck which runs north to the River Greta near Keswick). His route includes Harper Hills at , Hare Shaw at , Naddle High Forest (this and the next are ""nameless"" according to Wainwright) at ,"
"a 1st-century AD Roman fort to the east of the summit. Caer Mote Caer Mote is a small hill in the north of the English Lake District near Bothel, Cumbria. Its summit at lies just outside the boundary of the Lake District National Park. It offers a view of Bassenthwaite Lake from its summit, upon which is an ancient earthwork enclosure of undetermined age, known as ""The Battery"". Under the name Caermote Hill it is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ""The Outlying Fells of Lakeland"". Wainwright's route is an ascent from Bothel via the northern summit St."
"Cardiff Castle near the south coast to Conwy Castle on the north coast and is purposely routed over the highest upland and mountainous terrain including the Black Mountains, the Brecon Beacons National Park, the Cambrian Mountains, Cadair Idris, and Snowdon. The starting point of the route is at Cardiff Castle, chosen for its good transport links and in order for the walk to become a coast to coast route from South Wales to North Wales. Despite the first day of the walk lacking any mountains, it follows a pleasant Rigeway walk quickly crossing two industrial valleys before joining the open"
"allowed for these to be linked together – by creating new public access routes – to make a continuous route. The path was opened throughout in July 2008. The coast path runs along the Welsh Heritage Coast from Cardigan northwards along Cardigan Bay to Ynyslas near (Borth), a little to the north of Aberystwyth. The official start, in Cardigan, is the bronze otter next to the bridge on the northern bank of the River Teifi.() The end is at the Ynyslas war memorial.() The path crosses a variety of landscapes, such as the dune system at Ynyslas, high cliffs, storm"
"Ponsonby Fell Ponsonby Fell is a hill in the west of the English Lake District, near Gosforth, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ""The Outlying Fells of Lakeland"". It reaches , and Wainwright's route is an anticlockwise horseshoe starting at Gosforth, following the River Bleng before striking north for the summit, then descending to Wellington from where he recommends taking a bus back to Gosforth rather than walk along the A595 road (""""it is busy, dangerous, and has no footpath""""). Wainwright says: """"There are no fells not worth climbing, but Ponsonby Fell is very nearly"
"Sea to Sea Cycle Route The Coast to Coast or Sea to Sea Cycle Route (C2C) is a cycle route opened in 1994. Combining sections of National Cycle Route 7 and National Cycle Route 71, it runs from Whitehaven or Workington on the west coast of Cumbria, and then crosses the Lake District and the Pennines in the north of England by using a variety of both on and off-road trails, ending on the north-east coast at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, or at Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear. Claimed to be Great Britain's most popular long-distance cycle route, it is designed"
"accommodation and other facilities are available. It entails 50 to 60 miles of walking depending on the route taken and can be completed over two or three days. Alfred Wainwright suggested the walk could form an acceptable finish to his Coast to Coast Walk but did not specify if he recommends doing the 40 miles in a single push. There is no record of Wainwright completing the walk. There are no constraints on doing the walk in a more leisurely manner and a guide to doing the walk over four days has been published. The first Lyke Wake Club was"
"of Cumbria]] [[Category:Tourist attractions in Cumbria]] [[Category:British travel books]] The Outlying Fells of Lakeland The Outlying Fells of Lakeland is a book written by Alfred Wainwright, dealing with hills in and around the Lake District of England. It differs from Wainwright's ""Pictorial Guides"" in that each of its 56 chapters describes a walk, sometimes taking in several summits, rather than a single fell. This has caused some confusion on the part of authors attempting to prepare a definitive list of peaks. The Outlying Fells do not form part of the 214 hills generally accepted as making up the Wainwrights, but"
"the ridge forming the northern part of the ""horseshoe"" is described in his Wasdale Horseshoe chapter. Crookdale Horseshoe The Crookdale Horseshoe is a group of hills on the eastern edge of the English Lake District, in Cumbria, west of the A6 road. They are the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ""The Outlying Fells of Lakeland"". Wainwright describes an anticlockwise walk starting along the valley of Crookdale Beck (which joins Borrow Beck before flowing into the River Lune) to reach Lord's Seat (one of several English summits of that name, and also known as High House Fell) at ,"
"such a trial. So far as is known, there are no resident pine martens in Ennerdale, but there is evidence that the species is present in Cumbria. There are discussions about its reintroduction to the valley and breeding boxes have been installed. The valley is not much visited by tourists, but it is of interest to walkers and is sited on the ""Coast to Coast Walk"" devised by Alfred Wainwright. Ennerdale has two youth hostels, ""Ennerdale"" and ""Black Sail"". Black Sail (high up the valley near Black Sail Pass), has been described as England's loneliest youth hostel. In 2008 the"
"St Bees Head St Bees Head is a headland on the North West coast of the English county of Cumbria and is named after the nearby village of St Bees. It is the only stretch of Heritage Coast on the English coastline between the Welsh and Scottish borders, and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The sea off the Head is protected as part of the Cumbria Coast Marine Conservation Zone. It lies on two long-distance footpaths, the Cumbria Coastal Way and Wainwright Coast to Coast. Both long-distance footpaths follow the edge of the cliffs, which rise to 90"
"novel, the comic/erotic ""Insatiable"", was published in February 2012 and featured an extract from her (genital) warts and all autobiography ""The Swords of a Thousand Men"". Her second book ""The Prize"", a crime novel set in Prague, was published in September 2012, and draws heavily on her time living in the Czech capital. In November 2013, O'Neill walked Wainwright's Coast to Coast trail between St Bees in Cumbria and Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire, naked apart from a pair of walking boots and a rucksack, in order to raise awareness of how rising heating costs were affecting the elderly."
"Caer Mote Caer Mote is a small hill in the north of the English Lake District near Bothel, Cumbria. Its summit at lies just outside the boundary of the Lake District National Park. It offers a view of Bassenthwaite Lake from its summit, upon which is an ancient earthwork enclosure of undetermined age, known as ""The Battery"". Under the name Caermote Hill it is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ""The Outlying Fells of Lakeland"". Wainwright's route is an ascent from Bothel via the northern summit St. John's Hill at in an anticlockwise circuit. There are traces of"
"Cat Bells Cat Bells is a fell in the English Lake District in the county of Cumbria. It has a modest height of but despite this it is one of the most popular fells in the area. It is situated on the western shore of Derwent Water within of the busy tourist town of Keswick. Its distinctive shape catches the attention of many visitors to the Lakes who feel compelled to climb to the summit after seeing it from the viewpoint of Friars Crag on the opposite side of Derwent Water. Renowned Lake District writer and walker Alfred Wainwright acknowledges"
"clockwise loop starting from Staveley-in-Cartmel. Chris Jesty in his revised edition of Wainwright's book provides an alternative route and comments that """"There must be many people who, encouraged by the ordnance Survey map, or by the first edition of this book, have ... been turned back by an uncrossable fence."""" Staveley Fell Staveley Fell is an upland area in the English Lake District, near (and named for) Staveley-in-Cartmel (not to be confused with Staveley-in-Westmorland), Cumbria, east of the southern end of Windermere. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book ""The Outlying Fells of Lakeland"", but he admits"
"A171 allowing access to Whitby and Scarborough. The 93 and X93 Arriva bus services between Scarborough and Middlesbrough pass through Robin Hood's Bay. Robin Hood's Bay is the eastern terminus of Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk. Robin Hood's Bay is also on the coastal section of the Cleveland Way, a long distance footpath. Robin Hood's Bay is in the parish of Fylingdales which contains two churches both dedicated to St Stephen. The Old St Stephen's Church, Fylingdales, on the hill side at Raw, above the village, replaced an ancient church which had Saxon origins and was demolished in about 1821"