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| The starting line |
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| Turn right into wood where road goes to shadow |
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| Into the woods |
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| Starting the steep ascent |
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| Railway viaduct -Arnside/Grange-over-Sands. High Street and Kentmere fells at skyline |
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| Across the Kent estuary, Dow Crag and The Old Man of Coniston centre |
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| Zoom to Skiddaw - 33 miles distant |
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| Welcome seat at summit of A. Knott - trig is a little higher up and behind, but this is best for the view |
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| Well-known local landmark - Lake District hills in background. Legend says two lovers ostracised by their families planted two trees and linked them together |
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| Heysham Power Station across Morecambe Bay - about 11 miles away |
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| View indicator - looking across Kent Estuary to Grange-over-Sands - skyline shows Caw (the pointy one at left end) then further right the Coniston fells |
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| Hunphrey Head - an attractive peninsula sticking out into Morecambe Bay - makes a pleasant walk - there is a trig point at the end |
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| Spring at bottom of very steep slope of The Knott - nearly always has water and unfailingly remembered and visited by our late dogs Barney and Jake. |
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| Zoom to Ingleborough - twenty miles away ***********************************************************************************
KATIE UPDATE:
Photo as received by me from Jill
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| I never ordered this! |
The Ecrins and the Queyras et al are very specIal, but living hard by Arnside Knott isn't too bad either!
ReplyDeleteCardboard boxes are endlessly exciting, I don't know why we bother with toys.
It all looks as good as anywhere abroad Conrad, with weather to match.
ReplyDeleteBeating the Bounds and Afoot - D'accord! I did not intend to belittle Arnside Knott in any way. Since I moved here 12 years ago I have never taken these delightful surroundings for granted, and it is always a pleasure to return here from one's travels.
ReplyDeleteKatie has a profusion of toys many of which are plastic in bright colours, but they all look as though they have come from the same factory - Jill has attempted to buy wooden toys herself, but Katie is always more interested in a bunch of keys, or the aluminium walking stick issued to me by the hospital, or the little pull out drawers in my coffee table, and of course cardboard boxes which can become anything whatsoever in the imagination of a youngster.