We have done three recces for this walk, a little bit like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The first was too steep, the second had fallen trees and was too hard but the third one was, well that one was just right (and if not hard luck as I am Read more
Please find attached a list of our upcoming invertebrate identification workshops at World Museum, Liverpool and various field sites. I have also attached a poster showing our 2025 invertebrate recording days – all events are bookable via our website: https://www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/events/ Please circulate to your members/contacts or anyone you think might be interested.Follow the Read more
Our next walk is an easy one at Bolton Abbey, with two ups, both before lunch, for a total of about 500ft all day. There are no stiles, and with good paths there isn’t any mud either. The views, including Bolton Priory ruins, are breathtaking.Running the entire length of our Read more
My OS is telling me that the walk is about 7miles and should take about 3 hours. It is the Lowther Castle Loop – the latest addition to the Ullswater Way. The walk begins by following the castle walls before entering woodland and descending to follow the River Lowther. The Read more
Thanks to Julie and Mick McGough. Lovely people to walk with.
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of the scenery.Air. Mountains. Trees.I thought …” This is what it is to be happy”.Sylvia Plath. Field woodrush.Greater woodrush.Porpidia macrocarpa.Psilolechia lucida on tombstone.
Thanks to Simon Graham for leading the walk , so much to see with lovely weather, great company.
This is a lovely walk of 5.5 miles, and if we’re lucky the Bluebells will be out.Julie
After a refreshment stop at Truckhaven the coach will drop us off at Leighton Moss RSPB Reserve. We will walk up the lane and past the railway station before crossing the road and the golf course. After that we pass through fields, tracks and woods, hopefully admiring the scenery along Read more
Thanks to Christine for leading amazing walk. Beautiful scenery and lovely company.