The Pennines
The Pennines

Author: Helen Shaw

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781910723951

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Photographer Helen Shaw takes you on a fascinating journey celebrating the Pennines, that magnificent range of hills and moors which make up the backbone of England. The book covers the length of the Pennines, from south to north. It will enhance anyone's pleasure in this sometimes over-looked area by recommending the best viewpoints, walks or longer hikes, beautiful villages, bleak and dramatic hill-tops, caves, astonishing features, tourist attractions and lonely crags, breathtaking waterfalls and countless rivers which run to the west and east of the Pennines watershed. This book will make anyone who lives in or near the Pennines proud of this English range which has so affected the landscape and lives of its residents. And it will entice many tourists to explore this area further. This book will make anyone who lives in or near the Pennines proud of this English range which has so affected the landscape and lives of its residents. And it will entice many tourists to explore this area further.

Walking on the West Pennine Moors
Walking on the West Pennine Moors

Author: Terry Marsh

Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited

Published: 2012-02-15

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1849655391

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Guidebook to 30 day walks in the West Pennine Moors, the wide open country between Blackburn, Darwen, Chorley and Bolton in the heart of northern England. Walks range between 2.5 and 9 miles in length, and from short, easy rambles to challenging hikes. The West Pennine Moors cover over 80 square miles of wild and diverse landscape. The area is rich in historical heritage, including historic houses, monuments such as Holcombe Tower and Jubilee Tower, and other reminders of the industrial revolution. The walks are described step-by-step clearly illustrated with OS map extracts and colour photographs, with lots of information on local history and geology explained along the way.

Lancashire, Where Women Die of Love
Lancashire, Where Women Die of Love

Author: Charles Nevin

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-03-21

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1780578091

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Enough! For far too long, Lancashire has languished under the grimy pall of smoke and muck and mills and mines, enveloped in outdated condescensions, smothered by the easy dismissals that put down the north of England as just 'up there' and 'grim'. Thank you very much George Orwell, Monty Python and every London cabbie. But Lancashire is not up there. Lancs is actually situated in the centre of the British Isles. And far from being grim, it is a place of wit and wonder, romance and surprise, a land of exotic influence whose people have always looked outward to sophistications and influences beyond frontiers and seas. Indeed, French writer Honoré de Balzac recognised these affinities and yearnings in the Lancashire people when he had one of his characters declare that 'Lancashire is the county where women die of love.' Mock if you like, but then think about it: where is the magnificent thoroughfare that inspired the boulevards of Paris? Where did they go to film Brief Encounter, the most romantic British film ever made? Where did the young Shakespeare dream of and draw on for his inspired imaginings? Join Charles Nevin, Fleet Street journalist and humorist, as he returns to his roots and reveals all this and more. Discover the true Camelot and the beauty that is rugby league. See where Lancastrians go to die, but first visit Lost Lancashire and its great twin cities, Manchester and Liverpool. Mull over why Britain's greatest comics, from Laurel to Coogan, Formby to Vegas, Dodd to Kay, Fields to Wood, Morecambe and Dawson, have all come from Lancs. Mere coincidence? Give over, and read on . . .

Railways of the North Pennines
Railways of the North Pennines

Author: Tom Bell

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2015-03-02

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0750963506

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This illustrated history describes how the two pioneering railways of northern England, the Stockton and Darlington and Newcastle and Carlisle railways, developed from unsuccessful canal proposals and how they, with the ill-fated Stanhope and Tyne Railway, initiated the development of the railway system that served the North Pennine Orefield. It reveals the public and private railways, as well as proposed lines, and the recovery and extensions of the Stockton and Darlington Railway until the North Eastern Railway took over in the early 1860s. Dr Tom Bell’s impressive research also explores the subsequent slow but continuous decline as the minerals became exhausted, to the situation today when all that is left are three different tourist lines, one of which is trying to revive the mineral traffic.

Great Mountain Days in the Pennines
Great Mountain Days in the Pennines

Author: Terry Marsh

Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited

Published: 2013-03-22

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1849658919

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An inspirational large-format guidebook describing 50 walks in the Pennine mountains. Exploring all aspects of this beautiful upland area, the walks are graded with plenty of inspirational options for both first-time and experienced walkers. Routes range from 10-21km (6-13 miles) and can be enjoyed in 3-7 hours Covers the North Pennines, Howgills, Yorkshire Dales, South Pennines and Dark Peak Routes include Cross Fell, Wild Boar Fell, Ingleborough, Whernside, Pen-y-Ghent, Pendle Hill, Kinder Downfall and a traverse of Ilkley Moor Clear route description alongside 1:50,000 OS mapping reproduced at 1:40,000 for greater clarity Many routes are suitable for fell running

Supernatural Pennines
Supernatural Pennines

Author: Jenny Randles

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780709071440

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Since ancient times the moors and valleys within the Pennine hills have been fertile ground for strange phenomena. Supernatural Pennines relates over 100 of these inexplicable case histories which have come to light through regional surveys and in-depth examinations. We learn of the stretch of the Yorkshire/Lancashire border which has a record number of claims of alien abduction and where odd lights in the sky are so frequently observed that it is known as 'UFO Alley'. There are cases of poltergeist-inducing rain, incredible real life video recordings replaying past events, humming noises emerging from the ground, big cats roaming ghost-like through the peaks, ice bombs raining on houses from clear skies, mysterious burns to the skin, extinguishing of street lights and even flying dinosaurs. In Lancashire the magical aura of Pendle Hill is causing strange events four centuries after its infamous witches were arrested, whilst in the Derbyshire Peaks the flow of time itself is routinely interrupted. Often places where such phenomena abound are remote and inaccessible to scientific research. one day harness the energy that triggers strange forces within its midst. Supernatural Pennines reveals the mysterious energy at work in this remarkable area and demonstrates that it is one of the most haunted places on earth.

OECD Rural Policy Reviews: England, United Kingdom 2011
OECD Rural Policy Reviews: England, United Kingdom 2011

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2011-01-25

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 926409444X

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This book reviews governance structures and decentralisation; delivering public services; economic development; and the importance of improving connectivity in rural areas of the UK.