This walk starts from the tourist honey-pot of Dartmeet, on the East Dart River just upstream from its confluence with the West Dart. It’s a varied ramble providing some fine panoramic views and visiting rivers, leats, and a host of antiquities and relics of the moor’s more recent industrial past.
A few stories set in and around a Lakeland guest house .
A horseshoe walk through Cumbria’s industrial past, with some world class mountain views.
A spotters guide to fellgoing folk.
I explore the town: introducing its many delights and reflecting on what’s changed.
A Dartmoor Over The Hill Hike that didn’t quite go according to plan.
WATENDLATH AND BORROWDALE
Breathtaking views on the climb to a picture-postcard tarn, a delightful valley and just watching the river flow into Derwentwater.
BOREDALE AND ULLSWATER
Worshipping the fells at a ruined chapel, descending a big valley and strolling by a lake along Wainwright’s “most beautiful and rewarding walk”.
LATRIGG & THE RIVER GRETA
A minor Wainwright, a major view and a scenic riverside trail.
A story of three mates growing apart, negligible navigation and a magical discovery.
Over the hill - on Dartmoor & in Lakeland. I 