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Castlerigg Stone Circle (alternatively Keswick Carles, or Carles) [3] [4] is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the Lake District National Park, North West England. [5] It is one of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany , constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from approximately ...
Grisedale Pike is a fell in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, situated 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (7 kilometres) west of the town of Keswick in the north-western sector of the national park. At a height of 791 metres (2,595 feet) it is the 40th-highest Wainwright in the Lake District; it also qualifies as a Hewitt , Marilyn and Nuttall .
The Northern Fells cover a circular area north of Keswick. The range is bordered to the west by Bassenthwaite Lake, the River Greta in the south and Caldew river bounds the eastern edge of the group, flowing away toward Carlisle. It is the smallest group by total number of hills. Skiddaw seen from Borrowdale.
The group meet at Moot Hall in Keswick at 10:00 GMT. Steve Upton hoped the hikes would help people feel they were part of a community [Steve Upton] Newcastle Hiking held its first Christmas Day ...
The Keswick to Barrow Walk, also known as the K2B, is a 40 mile charity walking and running event which takes place annually in May in Cumbria, England, between Keswick and Barrow-in-Furness. The walk passes through much of the Lake District. It allows participants to run or walk as they choose. Most choose to walk, while the running contingent ...
Before the Bob Graham Round, many shorter rounds of the Lakeland fells were developed. These are chronicled in the Bob Graham Club's Story of the Bob Graham Round, [2] in the fell-walking section of M. J. B. Baddeley's Lakeland guidebook, [3] and most recently in Chapter 15 of Steve Chilton's It's a Hill, Get Over It: Fell Running's History and Characters.
Annual circular route around former RAF Pathfinder airfields in Cambridgeshire, held on the Saturday closest to Midsummers Day. Peak District Boundary Walk: 190 306: Derbyshire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire: Buxton Market Place: Buxton Market Place: A circular walking trail, broadly following the boundary of the Peak District national park.
The Northern Fells occupy a circular area about 10 miles (16 km) in diameter. The centre is slightly lower, an area of upland grazing and marshland known as Skiddaw Forest (although the only trees form the windbreak of Skiddaw House. This isolated building, 3 miles (4.8 km) from roads or other habitation, was once a shepherd's bothy.