An Accountant’s Night Out

An Accountant’s Night Out

Photo above by Andrew Nichol. Copyright of Chris Butterfield, Wainwright Archive   September 2019. Driving up to the Lakes with the radio on, I had the misfortune of hearing the BBC news reporting ‘revelations’ from David Cameron’s memoirs. I switched off and...
Lament for the Ordnance Survey

Lament for the Ordnance Survey

Kids in bed and the prospect of the next day free to spend walking on the hills, I was in my element. I spread out the OS Explorer map of the Forest of Bowland across the living room floor. A better read than any book, this familiar map is not just a paper record of...
Journey to the Source of the Stream Behind Our House

Journey to the Source of the Stream Behind Our House

I consider myself richer than a king when I can walk out of my house on a summer’s evening and climb Pendle Hill to watch the slow sunset over Bowland’s western fells. Then by the light of June’s strawberry moon I can drop down to the hedged back lanes of silent...
Pendle to Parliament: Visions on Pendle Hill

Pendle to Parliament: Visions on Pendle Hill

From Clitheroe to Pendle Hill Beyond Mearley Hall the softer Ribble Valley landscape of hedges and cows quickly gave way to drystone walls and sheep, the sign of a changing geology. Here is the transition, visible in the features on the ground, from the pastoral...
Pendle to Parliament: A Long Distance Walk across England

Pendle to Parliament: A Long Distance Walk across England

Any man can draw up a petition, and any man can carry it up to London, with instructions to deliver it into trusty hands, to be presented whenever the House shall meet.” [ William Cobbett, 1816 ] Over the last eight years the traditional English field path has become...