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Alfred Wainwright MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991), who preferred to be known as A. Wainwright [1] or A.W., was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells , published between 1955 and 1966 and consisting entirely of reproductions of his manuscript, has become the ...
A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells is a series of seven books by A. Wainwright, detailing the fells (the local word for hills and mountains) of the Lake District in northwest England. Written over a period of 13 years from 1952, they consist entirely of reproductions of Wainwright's manuscript , hand-produced in pen and ink with no typeset ...
Wainwrights are the 214 English peaks (known locally as fells) described in Alfred Wainwright's seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells (1955–66). They all lie within the boundary of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, and all but one (Castle Crag) are over 1,000 feet (304.8 m) in height.
The tarn is the location where Alfred Wainwright's ashes were scattered. He had expressed this wish in Fellwanderer: The Story behind the Guide Books: [2] "Every day that passes is a day less. That day will come when there is nothing left but memories.
Andrew Nichol was instrumental in keeping the famous writer's books in print in the early 1980s.
The Outlying Fells of Lakeland is a 1974 book written by Alfred Wainwright dealing with hills in and around the Lake District of England. It differs from Wainwright's Pictorial Guides in that each of its 56 chapters describes a walk, sometimes taking in several summits, rather than a single fell. This has caused some confusion on the part of ...
Alfred Wainwright described the ascent from Threlkeld via Hall's Fell ridge as ‘positively the finest way to any mountain-top in the district’. Wainwright recorded more routes of ascent for Blencathra than any other fell. [4] Blease Fell and Scales Fell provided easy walking on grass and fast routes of descent.
The Coast to Coast was originally described by Alfred Wainwright in his 1973 book A Coast to Coast Walk. Wainwright's book has since been revised a number of times in recent years (most recently in 2003) with updates to the recommended route. Wainwright's book describes the route in 12 stages, each of which ends at a settlement with at least ...