...in which we uwrap a selection box of our favourite clips from the year past in the company of Lakeland Walking Tales blogger and Lakeland Walker contributor, George Kitching. Featuring clips from, among others, Bill Birkett, Will Rawling, Charlotte Fairbairn, Rob and Harriet Fraser, Debbie North, Mark Hatton, Fell Foodie, Chris Butterfield and Melvyn Bragg, we sift through 19 episodes and 20 hours of recordings from as far flung as Ennerdale, Wigton, Coniston, Grasmere, Keswick and the big-sky North York Moors. In our annual extended fire-side chat, we ponder pubs, peat bogs, Potter and 'potatovators'; we visit Crosthwaite, Coniston Old Man and the Coast to Coast; we discuss Wainwright – a lot – and consider how the romance of his prose still draws folk to the fells; and finally, we close by asking 'What is the enduring magic of Lakeland?'
You can find George's brilliant Lakeland Walking Tails blog – walks, stories and musings from the Lake District Fells – at lakelandwalkingtales.co.uk
Countrystride #104: Eskdale - Living the Fisherground dream
Countrystride #103: Ambleside - A town through time
Countrystride #102: A Coast to Coast love affair, with Debbie North
Countrystride #101: The Yellow Earl and Lowther Castle
Countrystride #100: Why we love the Lakes
Countrystride #99: PEAT, POWER & THE PUBLIC – Caring for Watendlath
Countrystride #98: Askham – A vernacular celebration
Countrystride #97: Townend – A Troutbeck farming dynasty
Countrystride #96: Eric Robson – Wasdale, Wainwright, and a champion of Cumbria
Countrystride #95: Catbells & Hugh Walpole
Countrystride #94: Review of 2022
Countrystride #93: A Grasmere Gingerbread Christmas
Countrystride #92: Dentdale and The Dales High Way
Countrystride #91: Geology of the Lake District
Countrystride #90: The VIKINGS in Cumbria
Countrystride #89: Steve Birkinshaw – Smashing the 214
Countrystride #88: Forty Farms – Food and nature at Low Sizergh Farm
Countrystride #87: Trees in the age of the Romantics
Countrystride #86: Beatrix Potter
Countrystride #85: COPPERMINES VALLEY - Landscape legacy of audacious ambition
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