Useful Links

High Cup Nick, Cumbria

Useful Links

Lakeland Routes - a great resource from a friend of mine, Richard Jennings. The site contains routes & personal observations from Richard's walks in the beautiful Lake District plus interesting insights into local history and the characters that once lived and worked in this wonderful landscape.

www.lakelandroutes.uk/#

Sharkey's Dream - a simply incredible website which I use a lot for research into routes and for general enjoyment. Paul's site is the Daddy of them all as far as I am concerned. Give it a try.

www.sharkeysdream.co.uk

The Cumbria Way - a fantastic resource put together by Dik Stoddart for anyone wishing to undertake this 5 day, 70 plus miles Cumbrian Classic from Ulverston to Carlisle

www.cumbriawaywalk.info

Striding Edge - a diary of Lake District walks beautifully photographed by Sean McMahon.

http://www.stridingedge.net

Pighole - an amusing recollection of Long Distance Paths and other walks undertaken by a group of friends from the Potteries

http://www.pighole.co.uk

Walking Englishman - Mike Brockhurst's excellent site which is a myriad of information on all things walking. Includes details of walking journals, ideas for walks and both map and route downloads

http://www.walkingenglishman.com

Peak Walker - Angela Clarke's beautifully photographed walks illustrating the different moods and beauty of the English landscape and in particular, that of Derbyshire and the Peak District.

www.peakwalker.net

Lone Walker (Stuart Greig) - a good site for information on Long Distance Walking, Kit and other walks in and around the UK. Stuart has recently updated the Stedman Pennine Way guide and has also written his own guide books.

lonewalker.net

Rambling Man - another really good blogging site with journals of Long Distance Paths and other day walks in and around the UK plus lots more information.

http://ramblingman.org.uk

Pennine Walker - a very good website sharing one mans great times exploring the hills and mountains of the North of England - and beyond!

www.penninewalker.net

3 Peaks - a website dedicated to the 3 Peaks walk of Ingleborough, Whernside and Pen-y-Ghent. Useful forum to aid research and planning of a 3 Peaks Challenge attempt.

http://www.3peaks.co.uk

Walk Highlands - walk reports for not just Scotland but the rest of the UK and abroad. Excellent GPS tool where you are able to plan routes and download to your computer on 1:25 mapping.

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk

Packhorse - a company that provides baggage transfer and an accommodation booking service for Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk

http://www.c2cpackhorse.co.uk

Trail Magic - a very reasonable baggage transfer service covering all Long Distance Walks in the UK

www.trailmagicbaggage.com

Sherpa - another baggage transfer and accommodation booking service for Long Distance Paths. Excellent database of accommodation providers with walkers reviews.

https://www.sherpavan.com

Dales Way Association - the official site of The Dales Way giving lots of information about this wonderful 80 mile walk.

http://www.dalesway.org.uk

Long Distance Walkers Association - an Association of people with the common interest of walking long distances in rural, mountainous or moorland areas.

http://www.ldwa.org.uk

Walk Lakes - a similar site to Walk Highlands but concentrating on walking the beautiful landscape of the Lake District. Also provides free GPS Mapping at 1:25000

http://www.walklakes.co.uk

A Red Eye View - Andy Prolze's informative blog about his days out in the hills & mountains

aredeyeview.blogspot.co.uk

A Love of the Lakes - Rob Marsh's personal and informative site charting his progress in completing the 214 Wainwright Fells.

http://www.aloveofthelakes.co.uk/index.html

Tideschart - tidal information for free to 50,000 cities around the world. Provides information not just on tides but weather, water temperatures and fishing times.

www.tideschart.com/United-Kingdom