Knock Pike and Memories of Youth and Reckless Ambition

A brief pause en route to a few days of damp splendour in the Lakes. This is Knock Pike, an outlier on the Pennine chain.

A 1950 article in the Penrith Observer caught my attention. It detailed the results of a “Guides Race,” a professional fell race to the summit of this and back, starting from the village of Knock. The victor? The illustrious Bill Teasdale of Caldbeck—or ...

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A Rainbow Over Ruin: The Legacy of Great Rundale’s Baryte Mines

A rainbow graces the Pennine valley of Great Rundale, near Dufton—a charming touch to a landscape turned into an industrial graveyard. The old lead and barytes mines have left their mark: adits, crumbling shafts, stone hut ruins, and vast heaps of rocky waste. The track winding up the dale carries the faint memory of men trudging out from Duft ...

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