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Saunterings: Walking in North-West England
Saunterings is a set of reflections based upon walks around the counties of Cumbria, Lancashire and
North Yorkshire in North-West England
(as defined in the Preamble).
Here is a list of all Saunterings so far.
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254. Maryport and a Mysterious Moor
253. Cockermouth and Dorothy Wordsworth
252. All Quiet on the Westmorland Dales Frontier
251. From an Otter to Oxenholme
250. A Rainbow Celebration
249. Up Summersgill Fell With and Without Permission
248. Whernside in the Wind
247. In the Footsteps of Romans on Crosby Ravensworth Fell
246. Up and Up on the Coniston Fells
245. To Beacon Tarn – One of the Best Short Walks in Lakeland
244. The Art Deco of Morecambe
243. The Ingleton Waterfalls Rip-Off
242. Brock Valley Woods and Beacon Fell
241. The Wildlife of Aughton Woods
240. Turning Again to Whittington
239. Breaking the New Year Ice on Caton Moor
2026
238. An Advent Adventure on Baines Cragg
237. Stainforth and Salmon
236. The Not-the-Lune-Valley-Ramble Ramble
235. Barbon Low Fell and Trig Points
234. What ChatGPT 'Thinks' of Saunterings
233. A Rivetting Tale of High Gimmerdale
232. The Scotch Argus of Smardale
231. On the Wasdale Explorer
230. Harter Fell and the Architectonic Head of Eskdale
229. One Good Tarn Deserves Another Three
228. To the Largest Natural Tarn in the Lake District
227. La'al Ratty and Muncaster Fell
226. Impressions of Ravenglass
225. Garsdale
224. Around Anglezarke Reservoir
223. A Grand Bowland Circuit, plus Easington Fell
222. What’s Great about Great Knoutberry Hill
221. Small Water with Little ‘Uns
220. Pottering about Near Sawrey
219. Sedbergh, Brigflatts, the Waterside Viaduct and an Elephant
218. A Lowland Bowland Walk from Dolphinholme
217. The Lambrigg and Killington Turbines: Why Bother?
216. The View from Smearsett Scar
215. On the Old York-Lancaster Road from Hellifield to Settle
214. The Shining Levels of Morecambe Bay
2025
213. The Gressingham Puzzle
212. The Moor the Merrier
211. Bigland: Hall, Tarn, Heights, Barrow, Allotment and Woods
210. The Arnside Tide
209. From Orrest Head to Ambleside
208. Trials on Clougha
207. Eel Entrainment by United Utilities
206. Up, Up and Away
205. Where is Subberthwaite Common?
204. In the Dock at Glasson
203. Orchids and Bogbeans at Sunbiggin
202. Pausing at Garstang
201. An Erratic Saunter from Austwick
200. Walking Up Hazelhurst Fell in the New National Landscape
199. Ten Features of Lancaster, Five Old, Five New
198. The Bitterns and Marsh Harriers are Booming
197. Around the Windmills of My Mind, Metaphorically Writing
196. From Motte to Motte: Arkholme to Hornby
195. A (Mis?)Guided Tour of Kirkby Lonsdale
194. Walking and Wincing, Locally
193. Reflections on Three Walks, Remembering Nicola Bulley
192. Who should we Trust with our Waterways?
191. Back in Barbondale
2024
190. Sixty Lake District Tops in Sixty Days
189. The Standard Pen-y-ghent Walk
188. From Pooley Bridge to Glenridding on the Ullswater Way (Eastern Half)
187. From Glenridding to Pooley Bridge on the Ullswater Way (Western Half)
186. Thoughts from the Towpath (Holme to Carnforth)
185. The Peace of Shap
184. Three Ways to Gawthorpe Hall
183. On the Moors and Pastures above Bentham
182. Along the North Fylde Esplanade
181. Trail-Blazing on Farleton Knott
180. At the Heart of Bowland: Langdendale, Bleadale and Haredendale
179. A Kendalian Intermezzo
178. Back in the Saddle of Blencathra
177. Two of the 'Dales 30': Fountains Fell and Darnbrook Fell
176. The Cragg – Clougha Cuckoo Circuit
175. White Scar, Whitbarrow and Witherslack
174. Morecambe Away and Home
173. Early Spring in Chapel-le-Dale
172. Out to Pasture in the District of Eden
171. Along the Ribble Way to Brockholes
170. Nicky Nook and Landscape Art
2023
169. A Quinquennial Ambulation over the Moor
168. To Lancashire’s Highest Point, Wherever It Is
167. Yealand Woods, Leighton Hall and the Pheasants
166. Bretherdale Then and Now
165. In Gisburn Forest in the Forest of Bowland
164. A Walk in the Kentmere Park
163. Baugh Fell and Alpacas
162. A Cracking Bit of Wensleydale
161. Caves, a Waterfall, Windmills and a Crocodile
160. Levens Park and the River Kent
159. Up Dove Crag in Homage to Wainwright
158. Around the Kisdon Triangle: Muker, Keld and Thwaite
157. The Preesall Salt of the Earth
156. The Long and Winding Hornby Road
155. Two Sides of Bassenthwaite Lake and One of Derwent Water
154. Damming the Howgills
153. Thoughts from the Towpath (Galgate to Garstang)
152. Is the Purple Saxifrage on Ingleborough in Flower Yet?
151. From Cowan Bridge with the Brontës and Beyond
150. Psychogeographic Walking around Burnley
149. Wayfinding and the Highfields
148. The Man on the Clapham Omnibus …
2022
147. Snow-Walking in Littledale
146. A November Day around Grasmere and Rydal Water
145. Naturalising the Long Preston Deeps
144. Fencing The Clouds
143. Two Days as a Lake District Tourist
142. Eskmeals: Dunes, Estuary and Firing Range
141. In and Out of the Lake District, in the Ennerdale Region
140. Short-Circuiting Wharfedale
139. Ruskin’s View and a View of Ruskin’s View
138. From Barton to Preston: Ghosts, Lunatics and Invincibles
137. Bowness and its Hinterland
136. Green Fields or ‘Garden Village’?
135. By the Old Farmhouses of Dentdale
134. North and South in the Arnside and Silverdale AONB
133. The Limestone Hills East of Settle
132. Three Viaducts and a Tunnel of the Settle-Carlisle Railway
131. A Taste of the Kendal Mint
130. By the Lancaster Canal and the River Lune
129. From the Delights of Downham to the Heights of Pendle
128. Spring around Scout Scar
127. To Calf Top Top
126. Return to Roeburndale
113-125 are about walking and walks from home during another lockdown.
125. “Walking is not a sport”
124. The Most Prominent Hills of North-West England
123. Over to Overton and Around Little Fylde
122. Walking Uphill and Walking Up a Hill
121. The Phantom Hills of Mallowdale Pike, High Stephen's Head and Gallows Hill
120. A Walk in Littledale in 1847
119. Silence, Serenity and Solitude
118. Coast-to-Coast in Six Days
117. Empirical Studies into Gender Differences in Hilly and Horizontal Pedestrianism
116. Are the Caton Windmills on their Last Legs?
115. Risk, Fear and Pain – or Beauty, Joy and Wonder?
114. Never Mind the Danger
113. White Stoats on Caton Moor
2021
112. Walking around Pilling with Pink Feet
111. From Millstone Grit to Limestone
110. Cloughs and Grit: Clougha Pike and Grit Fell
109. Fair Snape: the Fairest Fell of Bowland
108. Westward Home! (from Lowgill with Thoreau)
107. Along the Sands from Millom to Silecroft
106. Twelve Ponds and a Power Station
105. An Autumn Stroll through Beetham Woods
104. From Bampton Grange to the Lake District's Highest Hills
103. Bogged Down around Rawcliffe Moss
102. Upper Ribblesdale: Drumlins, Three Peaks and a Cave
101. Passing the Time at Heysham
100. Crookdale and Horseshoes
99. Heather on Hawthornthwaite Fell
98. Karren and Flora on Hutton Roof Crags
97. Remeandering the Lyvennet
96. Castles and Towers from the Cross of Greet
95. Barbondale and the Dent Fault
79-94 are about walks from home during the (first) coronavirus lockdown.
94. Away from It All on Caton Moor
93. The Brookhouse - Claughton Circular
92. The Small-Leaved Limes of Aughton Woods
91. The Littledale Cuckoos are Back!
90. “One Form of Exercise – such as Walking” to the River
89. Tracking the Thirlmere Aqueduct
88. The Lune Millennium Park Artworks
87. Around the Claughton Clay Pit
86. Bluebells and Going Round the Lune Bend
85. The Tarn Brook Heronry
84. A Loop along Littledale Lanes
83. Gray's Seat and the View from the Crook o'Lune
82. A Peek into Artle Dale
81. The Lost Meander of the Lune
80. The Caton Moor Hares
79. Sand Martins by the Lune
78. Around Roeburndale
77. Bridging the Lower Little Ribble
76. The Belted Beauties of Sunderland
75. To Ward's Stone: A Classic Walk?
74. Blackpool Promenading
73. The Raygill Foraminifers
72. Turner and the Lune Aqueduct
71. Low in Low Barbondale
2020
70. Up the Conder
69. Lakeside, Finsthwaite Heights, Rusland Heights and Tourists
68. Landscape and the Howgills
67. The Consolation of Arant Haw
66. In Search of the Paythorne Salmon
65. From Grasmere to Grisedale Tarn
64. Beyond the Leagram Pale
63. Crummackdale: These Are a Few of My Favourite 'Superficial Things'
62. On and Off the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail
61. Knott Alone in the Caldbeck Fells
60. The Longsleddale Green Lane
59. The 1 in 5,000 Hen Harriers of Bowland
58. From Hawes, in the Poet Laureate's Footsteps
57. Around a Windswept Sandscale Haws
56. Cross Fell: The Apex of England
55. Butterflying on Whitbarrow
54. Follies around Flusco
53. Why? On the Wyre Way
52. Morecambe Bay - from Cark to Grange-over-Sands
51. On Wild Boar Fell
50. With the Lune from Kirkby Lonsdale
49. Lingmoor Fell - For the Best Medium-High View in Lakeland?
48. With The Grane
47. The 'Wild Desert' of Kingsdale
46. To the Point of Winterburn Reservoir
45. Thoughts from the Towpath (Bilsborrow to Preston)
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43. The Red Screes - Wansfell Question
42. Appreciating Long Meg and Lacy's Caves
41. Safe in Littledale
40. In the Borderlands of Burton-in-Lonsdale and Bentham
39. Halls Galore by the Middle Ribble
38. Reflections from Jeffrey's Mount
2019
37. Whoopers on Thurnham Moss
36. The Flow and Ebb and Flow of Morecambe
35. Dufton Rocks
34. Thieveley Pike and the Singing Ringing Tree
33. Is Nappa Hall Napping - or Dying?
32. Russet Rusland Valley
31. Pink Stones on the Orton Fells
30. Dunsop Bridge, Whitewell and Duchy-land
29. The Quiet End of the Ribble Way
28. Broughton Moor, or What's Left of It
27. The Footpaths of Anglezarke Moor
26. A Booze by Any Other Name
25. Mysterious Harkerside Moor
24. Up Ingleborough with the Holiday Crowds
23. The Kentmere Diatomite
22. In the Lancashire Yorkshire Dales
21. The Fortunes of Fleetwood
20. On the Sunny Side of Pendle
19. Viewpoints around Keswick (part 2)
18. Viewpoints around Keswick (part 1)
17. Sheep-Wrecked Matterdale?
16. The Wildflowers of Sulber
15. On the Hobdale Fence
14. Logging Along the Cam High Road
13. The Cairns of Grisedale Pike
12. Blea Water, High Street and Kidsty Pike
11. The Struggle over Boulsworth Hill
10. The 'Hillfort' of Addlebrough
9. "The Prettiest Mere of All" Lakeland
8. What Price Catrigg Force?
7. Castling in Cumbria: From Brougham to Lowther
6. The Count of Flasby Fell
5. Circumperambulating Stocks Reservoir
4. In a Flap at Bolton-le-Sands
3. Zipping over or around Thirlmere
2. The Dentdale Diamonds
1. The Taming of Caton Moor
2018
0. And Here's Some I Did Earlier
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© John Self, 2018-
Top photo: Rainbow over Kisdon in Swaledale;
Bottom photo: Ullswater