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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll) 212
alpaca 172, 232–4
Ambleside 108–9
American Mammoth Jacks 158
Animal Management (The War Office) 56, 81, 112, 139, 161, 182, 205, 244, 261, 266
Appleby Horse Fair x, 7
Armitage, Simon 170, 237
Ashness Bridge, Lake District 75
Auden, W. H. 74, 193–5, 200
Avebury, Wiltshire 134
Bainbridge, George and Isabel 26–7
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham 196
Bay Hotel, Robin Hood’s Bay 279, 280
beer 64–5
Benson, Dorothy 140–41
Benson, Gervase 140
Beowulf 135
black grass (alopecurus myosuroides) 229
blacksmithing 59–60, 196–9, 200
Blair, Tony 227, 236
Blakey Ridge 254, 265
Bland, Billy 53, 55, 84–5
Bland, Peter and Joanne 81–3, 85
Blencathra, Lake District 47
Bloomsbury Group 118
Bob Graham race 53–5, 97
Bolton-on-Swale, Richmondshire 224
Bonington, Chris 64
Borrowdale, Lake District 75–6
Bragg, Lawrence 181
Bragg, Mary 23, 24–5, 28
Bragg, Robert 22–5, 28
Bragg, William H. 22, 24–7
Brexit 241–2, 264
Bridges, Keith 64–5
bridleways 39, 51, 72, 126, 171, 238, 244–6, 248
Brigflatts, Cumbria 145, 147–9
British Mule Society 10, 11
Brockell, Tryphosa 213–14
Brodnax, Fred 58–60, 100, 196, 197
Bronze Age 114, 239, 240–41
Brown, Gordon 227
Brown, Joe 65–6
Buchan, John 44
Bunting, Basil 148
Bunyan, Vashti 43
Buried Giant, The (Ishiguro) 226
Burl, Aubrey 115
Butler, Samuel 213–14
Buttermere 34–5
Byways and Bridleways Trust 245
Calf, The, Howgill Fells 128
Callanish Stones 114
Carroll, Lewis see Dodgson, Charles
Castlerigg Stone Circle 114
Catterick Racecourse 219–23
Cautley Spout waterfall 123
Chew Valley Lake 110
Claude’s Glass 74, 75, 99
Cleveland Hills 235
Cleveland Way 237–9
Clifford, Florencia 228–9, 232
Clowes, Alan 140–43, 145
Coast to Coast Walk, A (Wainwright) 33
Coast-to-Coast path 169–71, 177, 227
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 86, 87, 88, 95–101
confabulation 142, 225–6
Cope, Julian 114
Cromwell, Oliver 152
Crosby Ravensworth Fell 112
Cross Keys Temperance Inn, The, Sedbergh 139–43
Culkin, Tim 207–10
cultural fragmentation 61
Darwin, Charles 8
Defoe, Daniel 88
Description of the Scenery in the North of England, A (Wordsworth) 75
Dodge horse van 46, 58, 102–3, 132–3
Dodgson, Charles 210–12
donkeys 5–7
dry-stone walls 201–3
Eagle Crag, Lake District 79
Easby Abbey, Richmondshire 217–18
Eastern Fells 105
economic polarization 60–61
egrets 220
Eliot, T. S. 87, 194
European Union 184, 230, 241, 264 (see also Brexit)
Facebook 32
farming 229–32, 255–6
Farndale, North Yorkshire Moors 254, 255–6
fell-running 35–6, 84–5, 93
man-hunts 35–6
Fellwanderer (Wainwright) 38
ferns 171
Feversham Arms, Farndale 255, 257
Fiennes, Celia 216
Firbank Fell 149–50
Fleetwith Pike, Lake District 34, 36, 80
Floating down the Seine (Gibbings) 144
footpaths 237–8, 245
Ford, Fiona 62–3
Ford, Jeff 46, 62–5
Ford, Richard 91, 92
Fox, George 115, 140, 145–6, 149–52, 154, 183
Fox’s pulpit see Firbank Fell
Friends of the Lake District, The 36
Galava see Ambleside
Gamekeeper at Home, The (Jefferies) 187
gamekeepers 187–9
Gathorne-Hardy, Jason 116–27, 129–31, 133, 134
Gibbings, Robert 144
golden eagles 108
Goth Festival, Whitby 271–6
Grasmere 79, 80, 81–2, 86, 88
Gray, Thomas 88
Great Asby Scar, Cumbria 115
Great Fryup Head, Yorkshire Moors 270
Green Road into the Trees, The (Thomson) ix, 134, 199
Greta Hall, Keswick 96, 98
Grigson, Geoffrey 193
Grisedale Tarn 93, 94
grouse 185
grouse shoots 186–9, 264
Hall, Sarah 106–8
Handbook for Travellers in Spain, A (Ford) 92
Hardy, Thomas 108, 109
Harter Fell, Lake District 121, 122
Hartley Fell, Cumbria 171–3
Hartsop, Cumbria 105
Haslam, John and Jude 207
Haweswater 106, 108–10
Haweswater (Hall) 106–7
Haystacks, Lake District 32–3, 35, 37–8
Hekla (volcano) 241
Helm Crag, Lake District 88
Helvellyn, Lake District 94–5, 99
Henry VIII, king of England 159, 218–19
Herriot, James 179, 180, 189
Heseltine, Michael 198
High Raise, Lake District 80, 105, 106, 110
High Street mountain, Lake District 108
Hildyard, Hugo 228–32
‘hinds’ 183–4
His Dark Materials 238
History and Traditions of Ravenstonedale (Nicholls) 137
Hoagland, Tony 135
Holmes, Richard 96
Honister Pass, Lake District 29–31, 36, 43–4
Horse and Farrier, The, Threlkeld 56, 59
horse racing 219–23
horses 49–50, 70–72, 83, 246–7
Howgill Fells 115–16, 119, 124–6
Hutton, Matthew 204
ice axes 65–6
Icknield Way, The (Thomas) 237
‘In Praise of Limestone’ (Auden) 194
Innominate Tarn, Lake District 38
Ishiguro, Kazuo 226
Jefferies, Richard 187
Jenkins, Henry 224–6
Jethro
acquiring 12–14
bonding with 68–9
grooming 70–71
stamina 91
training 19, 68–9
Journal (Fox) 145
Just Another Diamond Day 43
Kean, Edmund 214
Keats, John 87
Keld, Swaledale 190, 194
Kemp Howe, Cumbria 114
Kidsty Pike, Lake District 110
Kirk, Elizabeth 244–8
Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria 161, 166, 168, 171
Kirkstone Pass, Lake District 101, 104
‘Kubla Khan’ 97, 100
Lady Elsie 273–6
Lake District 21, 29, 33–4, 36–7, 44–5, 56, 73–6, 79, 88–9
Ashness Bridge 75
Blencathra 47
Borrowdale 75–6
building and construction in 77–8
Buttermere 34–5
Eagle Crag 79
Eastern Fells 105
Fleetwith Pike 34, 36, 80
Grasmere 79, 80, 81–2, 86, 88
Greta Hall, Keswick 96, 98
Grisedale Tarn 93, 94
Harter Fell 121, 122
Haweswater 106, 108–10
Haystacks 32–3, 35, 37–8
Helm Crag 88
Helvellyn 94–5, 99
High Raise 80, 105, 106, 110
High Street 108
Honister Pass 29–31, 36, 43–4
Innominate Tarn, 38
Kidsty Pike 110
Kirkstone Pass 101, 104
Lining Crag 79, 80
Mardale Green 107, 109–10
Moses Trod 29, 39
Mungrisdale Common 50
Newlands waterfall 99
Northern Fells 45, 50, 52, 64
Scafell Pike 75, 89
Seat Sandal 93
Skiddaw 45
Southern Fells 80
Straits of Riggindale 108
Striding Edge 94–5, 99
Threlkeld 45, 46, 55, 56
tourism 88
Ullswater 77, 94, 101
Wasdale Head 35
Western Fells 29, 34, 35, 44
wildlife 89, 108
Lakeland Shepherd’s Guide 81
limestone 194
Lining Crag, Lake District 79, 80
Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge 254
Little Newsham, Co. Durham 196
Long Meg and Her Daughters 114
longhouses 183, 184
Lorrain, Claude 74
Lowther Estate 82
Lynch, Austin 207–10
Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth, Coleridge) 96
Macfarlane, Robert 76
Malory, Thomas 135
Manchester 61–2, 110
Mardale Green, Cumbria 107, 109–10
Marske, Richmondshire 201, 203–4
Mawson, Peter 261–5
Maxwell, Glyn 242
May, Theresa 242
Maynard, Dave and Sue 255–7
McEwan, Ian 61
Millennial Stone, North Yorkshire Moors 267
Miller, Robert 186, 187
Mines and Mining in the English Lake District (Postlethwaite) 195
Monbiot, George 125
Morning Post 78
Morocco 253
Morte d’Arthur, Le 135
Moses Trod 29, 39
Muker, Swaledale 183, 188
Mule Fair, The 10–12
Mule, The (Travis)
mules
American Mammoth Jacks 158
and Catholicism 159
biology 156, 157
breeding 156–7
characteristics 8–9, 155–7
distribution and use 158
grooming 13, 70–71
in ancient times 157
in Britain 158–9
in military campaigns 265–6
in World War I 266–7
mastering 4–5, 68–9
purchasing 1–4
temperament 9, 72, 157, 253
muleteers 48–9, 67, 90–91
Mungrisdale Common 50
Murthwaite woods 122
Nanda Devi, Himalayas 64
Narrative of a Five-Year Expedition in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America 100
Natural England 170, 236
nature writers 268–9
Naylor, Joss 54
Newcastle 1
Newlands waterfall 99
Nicholls, Rev. W. 136–7
Nine Standards Rigg, Pennines 169, 171–3
Nixon, Richard 151
Northern Fells 45, 50, 52, 64
Oddie, Bill 268
Old Crown, Hesket Newmarket 64
Old Roads of Eastern Lakeland (Wainwright) 109
On the Road with Wellington: The Diary of a War Commissary (Schaumann) 90–91
Orton Stone Circle 113–14, 115
Orwell, George 268–9
Osmotherley, North Yorkshire 235
Oswald, Alice 56
Owen, Amanda and Clive 175, 176–81, 227
pack-horse routes 128, 129
Packham, Chris 189, 268
Peel, William, 3rd Earl Peel 186
Pennine Way 170, 237
Peru 3, 9, 10, 13, 46
Pilgrimage of Grace 218–19
Piper, Edward 118
Ploughman’s Lunch, The (film) 61
Postlethwaite, John 195
Powell, Anthony 44
Powys, John Cowper 107
Prelude, The (Wordsworth) 87–8
Pullman, Philip 238
Quaker movement 138, 140–52, 154, 183
Radio Cumbria 66–7
Ramblers organization 245
Ravenseat, Swaledale 174–5, 182, 183
Ravenstonedale, Cumbria 117, 136–7
Rebanks, James 125
Reeth, Swaledale 190–91, 196
Richardson, Jimmy 1–7
Richmond, North Yorkshire 205–10, 212, 215–17
Swale House 212
Theatre Royal 212–15
Right to Roam Act 247–8
‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The’ 96, 100
Robin Hood’s Bay, North Yorkshire 277, 278, 279–80
Robinson, Richard 145–6
Rogue Herries (Walpole) 43–5
Romans 108–10
Romantic poets 86–8, 99
Roseberry Topping, North Yorkshire 251–2
Rosedale Ironstone Railway 254
RSPCA 12, 13, 14, 120
Russell, Brian and Hilda 196–200
St Bees, Cumbria 14, 15, 18, 20
St Cuthbert 203, 218
Sassoon, Siegfried 223
Scafell Pike, Lake District 75, 89
Schaumann, August 90–91
Scrayingham, North Yorkshire 230
Seaham, County Durham 2, 5
Seat Sandal, Lake District 93
Sedbergh, Cumbria 138, 142–4, 145, 149–50
Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire (Wordsworth) 73–5
sheep 81, 82–3, 120, 123–6, 132, 162–6, 180–81, 262–3
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 99
Shepherd’s Life, The (Rebanks) 125
Silbury Hill, Wiltshire 114
‘Six Unexpected Days in the Pennines’ (Auden) 194
Skiddaw, Lake District 98
Skiddaw House 45, 47, 52–3, 55
slate quarries 29–31, 36
smit marks 81, 120
‘sneck lifter’ 57
Snell, Lynda 182
Society of Friends see Quaker movement
Sokol, Annis 69–71, 105
Somerville, Christopher 237
Songs of Travel (Stevenson) 113
Southern Fells 80
Spinks, Nicky 53
Stachowiec, Fiona 228
steampunks 273–6
Stedman, J. G. 100
Steinbeck, John 195
Stevenson, Robert Louis x, 113
Stewart, Chris 63
Stonehenge 113
Stoneraise Place, Wigton 21–7
Straits of Riggindale 108
‘Streams’ (Auden) 193–4
Striding Edge, Lake District 94–5, 99
Swaledale 182–6, 189, 193
Sweet Thames Run Softly (Gibbings) 144
Tate, James 212
Teesside 239–40, 241–2, 254
Thesiger, Wilfred 131
Thomas, Edward 237, 245
Thomson, David 152–4, 192–3, 225
Threlkeld, Lake District 45, 46, 55, 56
Times, The 37
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (Stevenson) x
Travels with Charley (Steinbeck) 195
Travis, Lorraine 8
Turner, J. M. W. 216
Ullswater 77, 94, 101
Urra Moor, North Yorkshire 252
Vale of Mowbray 227, 235
Vikings 183, 203
von Einsiedel, Gwennie 132, 133–4
Wainstones, The 239
Wainwright, Alfred 33–4, 35, 37, 38, 40, 52, 88–9, 109–10, 115, 168, 205, 236
Wallace, Jannicke 76–7, 78–9
Walpole, Hugh 43–5
Wasdale Head, Lake Distict 35
weeds 229, 233–4
Weir, Mark 36–7
Western Fells 29, 34, 35, 44
Westmorland 141, 143, 151
Westmorland Seekers 146, 149
Whitby, Yorkshire 271–6
Goth Festival 271–6
Wigton, Cumbria 21, 27
Wild Boar Fell, Yorkshire Dales 124
Wilkinson, Joseph 73
Williance, Robert 206
Wilton, North Yorkshire 240, 241
Winn, Jasper 14, 18–19, 48–9, 68, 88–90, 127, 129, 135
Wordsworth, Dorothy 75–6, 88, 101
Wordsworth, William 73–6, 77–8, 86–7, 96–8, 115
World War I 266–7
Yorkshire Dales 143, 174, 183, 201
Keld, Swaledale 190
landscape of 201–3
longhouses 183, 184
Muker, Swaledale 183, 188
Ravenseat, Swaledale 174–5, 182, 183
Reeth, Swaledale 190–91, 196
Swaledale 182–6, 189, 193
trees 201
Wild Boar Fell 124
Yorkshire Moors 235–6, 240, 251–2, 254–6, 265, 267–8
Blakey Ridge 254, 265
Farndale 254, 255–6
Great Fryup Head 270
headlands 236
Millennial Stone 267
North York Moors National Park 245
Roseberry Topping 251–2
Urra Moor 252
vegetation 235–6
Yorkshire Shepherdess, A (Owen) 175, 180
yurts 182