Martin Lewes is a journalist who has spent much of his working life reporting for the BBC on events in the Lake District national park and Cumbria, in north west England. He described the job as driving around the Lakes talking to interesting people, and is now exploring the mountains and hills he spent more than 30 years driving past and other parts of the world.
The huge beaches and rolling coastal countryside of Normandy where the D-Day landings started the final chapters of the Second World War in June 1944, are dominated by that history. There are numerous museums, huge…
Away to the east of the splendours of Edinburgh, north of the Firth of Forth, runs a coastline full of interest, not least the name, the East Neuk of Fife (Neuk means corner). A well-signposted…
On one of the most important days in English history, 1 August 1086, all the significant landowners in England gathered to swear allegiance to William the Conqueror, marking the completion of his annexation of the…
Most walkers staying in Sedbergh will trek up the hill behind the town, Winder, the southernmost tip of the Howgills and standing at around 1,500ft, and most footpaths leaving the streets on the northern side…
The Lune valley, stretching up from Morecambe Bay and Lancaster into the Yorkshire Dales, is a little-noticed gem of Northern England, and one of its best facets is the town of Kirkby Lonsdale. Kirkby stands…
Sedbergh is a small Dales town with a fascinating history dating back at least 1,000 years, which for half of that time has been dominated by a famous public school. This mostly easy walk of…
