Pendle Hill is an isolated hill of Lancashire that is full of not just great walking terrain but plenty of history and folklore. It is 557 metres (1,827 ft) in height above sea level which makes…
A couple of months ago we decided to go for a drive out to West Yorkshire. We’ve been doing quite a lot of driving and exploring over the past months during lockdown. Discovering new places…
North Derbyshire will always be one of my favourite places to walk, and that is the reason for deciding to write about one of the walks I have so often returned to. I’ve visited the…
New Year’s Eve in Allendale Town high on the Pennine Hills in Northern England and there was some strange goings on, The Tar Bah’l. Actually it was just a regular New Year Eve in Allendale….
Where Yorkshire meets Greater Manchester, Standedge is a rocky outcrop that I have wandered up to many times since I was a young boy. A perfect spot, whatever the weather to look out over Saddleworth,…
Blackstone Edge and the walks along the Pennines around it are a favourite haunt of mine. In pages past I have explained how coming from Oldham, the hills in this area mean a lot to…
Spanning approximately 160 acres and is one of the largest open spaces run by Oldham Countryside Service and is a registered common in Greater Manchester. It has also been a site of biological importance from…
Kinder Scout Plateau is the highest point in the Derbyshire Peak District National Park, rising to 636 metres (2,087ft) above sea level at its highest point. In 1932 Kinder Scout Plateau was historically involved in…
A place I have actually lived at and a place that draws me back time and time again, Dove Stone Reservoir, Saddleworth. On the outer edge of Oldham and Greater Manchester, above the village of…
Murton Pike is an unmistakable conical hill sitting at the foot of the Northern Pennines in the Eden Valley, Cumbria. A tempter for many a quick ramble, family walk, dog walk or for the keener,…
It was a nice cool Sunday morning. Bacon butties in the making and coffee in hand. I had done a few walks very recently over one side of the valley in the Lake District. I…
It was a nice day, was sat drinking a coffee in the garden. I looked around and saw my boots, I looked up and towards the Pennines and put both together on a whim… as…