Top 10 Walks: Lake District: Walks with History

Description

 WINNER OF TGO’s ‘BEST GUIDEBOOK’ AWARD 2013

One of ten books in the new Top 10 Walks: Lake District series.

This attractive and cleverly structured guidebook gives walkers the ten best walks through Cumbia’s historic landscapes in a popular pocketable format.

With clear information, an overview and introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, Ordnance Survey maps, superb, eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, and interpretation of points of interest along the way, these guides set a new standard in clarity, appeal and ease-of-use.

 

Contents

The Lake District National Park: an introduction

Top Ten Walks: History walks: a photo mosaic

1. Castlerigg Neolithic circle
2. Moor Divock Bronze Age circle
3. Carrock Fell Iron Age hillfort
4. Hardknott Roman for
5. Gosforth Norse cross
6. Medieval Shap Abbey
7. Kentmere Hall pele tower
8. Catbells’ Elizabethan mines
9. Stott Park Georgian dam
10. Victorian Loughrigg Tarn

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What they say …

“There’s little to fault in this winning formula – clear maps and instructions, concise and well laid out with the reader very much in mind. These are great value for money at around a fiver.”

— Outdoors Writers and Photographers Guild, Awards for Excellence 2013