Description
Book SynopsisLiterature and a love of the English countryside are natural companions.
Walking the Literary Landscape by Ian Hamilton and Diane Roberts brings the two together in a collection of 20 circular routes in the north of England, all between 3 and 9 miles (5 and 15 kilometres) in length. The walks explore the physical settings that inspired some of our greatest literature.
Walk in the footsteps of writers like Arthur Ransome, who drew inspiration from the Lake District for his classic children's adventure Swallows and Amazons, or the Brontë sisters whose love of the moors around Haworth echoes through the centuries. See Chatsworth, the Peak District house that thrilled Jane Austen, and tread carefully in Whitby, the Yorkshire seaside town where Bram Stoker set his most famous creation Dracula.
Each route introduces you to a landscape familiar to some of our greatest writers, and is accompanied by clear and easy-to-use Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps, straightforward directions, and information on each area's literary links, refreshment stops and local amenities. Everything you need for a great literary walk.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Acknowledgements
About the walks
Walk times
Navigation
Footpaths and rights of way
Safety
The Countryside Code
How to use this book
Maps, descriptions, distances
Km/mile conversion chart
Area Map
The Lake District
1 Bassenthwaite Lake and Dodd (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
2 Carrock Fell (Charles Dickens)
3 Coniston Water and Torver (Arthur Ransome)
4 Far Sawrey and Windermere (Beatrix Potter)
5 Grasmere and Rydal Water (William Wordsworth)
6 Walla Crag and Derwentwater (John Ruskin)
The North East, the Moors & the Dales
7 Blanchland (W. H. Auden)
8 Humbleton Hill and Wooler (William Shakespeare)
9 Cleadon Hills and Marsden Rock (Catherine Cookson)
10 Whitby (Bram Stoker)
11 Around Thirsk (James Herriot)
12 Upper Wharfedale and Hubberholme (J. B. Priestley)
13 Malham Tarn and Cove (Charles Kingsley)
Peak District, South Pennines & Cheshire
14 Hurst Green and Stonyhurst College (J. R. R. Tolkien)
15 Haworth and the moors (The Brontë sisters)
16 Mytholmroyd and the Calder Valley (Ted Hughes)
17 Mam Tor and the caverns (Arthur Conan Doyle)
18 Around Chatsworth (Jane Austen)
19 Knutsford and Tatton Park (Elizabeth Gaskell)
20 Daresbury (Lewis Carroll)
Appendix
About the authors
