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Wray festival 2019

By Hugh Stewart May 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

This annual scarecrow festival of a week or so, ending on May Bank Holiday Monday, has been going since 1993. Best to visit by bicycle at weekends/the BH Monday, as queues for parking cars can be enormous. The theme this year is evolution, with some of the scarecrows shown below.

  • Scarecrow evolution
  • Whale tail from plastic
  • Green Man.
  • Mr Beaman.
  • Fresh water solution.
  • Interesting take on dinosaur extinction!

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    Hillwalks from the Settle to Carlisle Railway Stations

    24 walks into the hills surrounding the historic and iconic Settle to Carlisle railway, based on the stations between Settle and Appleby. The area has some of the finest walking of the north Pennines: the Craven district around Settle; the Three Peaks area; Dentdale, and Mallerstang and the upper Eden valley.

    £12.95 (P&P may apply)

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    Mountain Biking Adventures: Multi-day Routes in Northern Britain

    Over the last two decades, mountain biking has developed enormously as a “sport”. We greatly admire the technical and athletic capabilities of modern day mountain bikers and recognise that many excellent guides have been written and custom-built trails set up. In this guide we try to reopen a sense of adventure and wilderness to mountain biking, providing multi-day routes with a remoteness, continuity and “arc” missing from many modern guides with their focus on day and half day outings.

    UK £13.95 ( inc. P&P)

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    Settle to Carlisle – Hill Walk with Return by Classic Train Route

    With over 22,000 ft of ascent in 105 miles set out over 8 days, this walk sets out from Settle, taking in the classic summits of the North Yorkshire Dales, Howgills, Eastern and Northern Lakeland Fells, to arrive at Carlisle. The return journey to Settle by one of the classic train journeys. Illustrated with photographs and route maps.

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    Addition to the book of Trespass: Warcop.

    This is an 8 mile walk over Little Fell and down and along the side of Scordale. A wild, lonely, and in places rough walk, with 2100ft of climbing. The trespass refers to the fact that most of the walk is in the MOD's land, with access granted by them on 12 weekends per year and other odd days. The

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    Watendlath and Borrowdale circular

    A suitable pre-Theatre by the Lake evening production, when the cloud level is low and you don't fancy walking with no views in the damp. It comes to just under 9 miles with 2100ft of ascent. From the Lodore Wood car park up the Watendlath road, take the road south till an obvious track leads off

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    Malham Tarn and More

    Actually the title is misleading, but kept as it sounded good; the walk goes round the "moor" north of the Tarn and only back along its north bank, and includes the wonderful boardwalk near the Tarn for a floral treat. It has 7.6 miles of limestone scenery, completely avoiding the crowds around the

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