Wainwright's Remote Lakeland

Cumbria

This is the first long distance route to be based on Wainwright's work since his own Coast to Coast walk in 1973. The only other long trek he invented from start to finish was the Walking Tour of Lakeland created in 1930 (Wainwright Memorial Walk) and attempted with a bunch of his mates from the Borough Treasurer's Office in Blackburn during the Whitsun holiday in 1931.

Like so many good ideas this new walk came out of a conversation in the pub. Eric Robson, who was Wainwright's walking companion on the BBC2 television series in the 1980s, suggested it during a jolly night in the Bridge Inn at Santon Bridge and later went onto plan and walk the circuit.

The result is a 190 mile adventure through the remote mountains of remote Lakeland.

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Details:

Path Type:	Other Paths
Attributes:	Challenging Moorland Mountain
Start and Finish:	NY497282 - Rheged Discovery Centre, Penrith, Cumbria

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Publications, Badges and Certificates:

General Interest Book

After Wainwright  (Striding Edge  - 2003 )

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