North West
Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, Lake District: Wordsworth’s Daffodils
‘Beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze’ GLENCOYNE BAY Imagine for a moment this ‘spot in time’. The spot is between the main road and the water at the south end of Glencoyne Bay, now also known as Wordsworth Point. The time is April 15th, 1802, vividly described by Dorothy […]
Near Sawrey, Lake District: Beatrix Potter
‘Hill Top is to be presented to my visitors as if I had just gone out and they had just missed me’ The inspiration for this walk… The World of Peter Rabbit (from 1902 onwards) My parents would go round to their friends Bill & Laddie’s for dinner frequently and, only being about five years […]
Liverpool’s Hope St Quarter: focal point of the Mersey Beat and the Mersey Sound
‘Liverpool is at the present moment the centre of the consciousness of the human universe.’ Alan Ginsberg, 1965 ‘A port in which all climes and countries embrace.’ Herman Melville The inspiration for the walk…The Mersey Sound (1967) I came to Liverpool late, but fell in love with the city immediately. It just felt different from […]
Coniston Water, Lake District: Arthur Ransome’s Swallows & Amazons
Lake District, Coniston Water: Swallows & Amazons ‘All the places in the books are to be found, but not arranged quite as the ordnance maps’ The inspiration for this walk…Swallows & Amazons (1930s) I must have scorched through the Swallows and Amazon series in a matter of weeks when I was about eight years old. […]
Grasmere & Rydal, Lake District: William Wordsworth
‘The loveliest spot that man have ever found’ KEY DATA Terrain: ups and downs, and uneven surfaces around the lake Starting point: Stock Lane car park, Grasmere (LA22 9SJ) Distance: 10.2 km (6.4 miles) Walking time: 3h 7 min OS Map: Outdoor Leisure Map 7. The route can be found online at https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/route/8851334/Grasmere Facilities: Grasmere […]
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