Index

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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