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Alfred Wainwright’s forgotten walk
Evening News & Star 10 May 2013
Alfred Wainwright has done more than anyone else to encourage walkers to appreciate the ..... more
The 2013 Society calendar has raised £10,000
Westmorland Gazette
18 April 2013 – which has been presented to Cumbria Wildlife Trust in support of the Uplands for Juniper project ..... more
Walking guide's new book puts Wainwright back on the map - Nick Burton, who is a walk leader for the town council in Blackburn spent a year putting together Wainwright’s Way, a complete guide covering a 10-day, 126-mile long route, and including illustrations by AW himself ..... more
Teesdale artist and Society member Andy Beck is nearing the end of a five-year painting marathon - he is painting a watercolour version of every single sketch in Alfred Wainwright's seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. He now has about 60 ......... more
Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Wainwright's Pennine Journey walk. Further details available by clicking here ...
Eric Robson, Wainwright Society Chairman to give a talk about Alfred Wainwright
Lancashire Telegraph 2/1/2013 - Eric Robson will be staging a special presentation on the life of Wainwright at Clitheroe’s Grand theatre in February ...
Wainwright Society remembers author with special events Westmorland Gazette 12/11/12 - Dozens of Wainwright aficionados gathered to commemorate two special dates in their diaries ...
Mountaineer Alan Hinkes helps Wainwright fans celebrate double anniversary Grough 9/11/12 - The Wainwright Society was formed 10 years ago and it was 60 years ago that the fellwalker first put pen to paper on what would become his celebrated Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells ...
Alfred Wainwright's first sketch celebrates 60th Anniversary BBC 7/11/12 - Sixty years ago, one man with a notebook, pen and ink in hand, started a 13-year journey to create the "love letters" to the Lakeland fells ...
Praise for the Wainwright Society - South Lakes MP Tim Farron praised members of the Wainwright Society today on the eve of their 10th anniversary and thanked them for keeping Alfred Wainwrights traditions alive ...
Coast To Coast to be waymarked by AW Grough 25/09/12
A long-distance route tackled by thousands of walkers every year will be officially waymarked after authorities approved the move ...
Wainwright Society plea to Coast to Coast walkers: take a map Grough 05/09/12 - Derek Cockell, press and publicity officer for the Wainwright Society, said: “Wainwright's guide is an excellent publication, but there is no substitute for ...
Climber Alan Hinkes will deliver anniversary Wainwright lecture - Grough 22/08/12
Blackburn brewery Thwaites sets up mountain-top bar - Lancashire Telegraph 18/08/12 -
Thirsty walkers on the summit of Britain's highest mountain were given a real treat - a drop of Wainwright ale, courtesy of Thwaites ...
Orrest Head Viewfinder replaced - Grough - 29/07/12
A new viewfinder at the spot famous for attracting the late Alfred Wainwright to the Lake District fells has been unveiled. The diagram of the vista that ...
Wainwright calendar goes on sale to raise funds for juniper project Grough 15/07/12 - Line drawings and quotations from the late Alfred Wainwright, famous for his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, also adorn pages of the calendar ...
The Wainwright Society secures Wainwright’s notebook for the Archive The Westmorland Gazzette 25/06/12- Unique notebooks used by fell-walking legend Alfred Wainwright have been secured for public viewing after selling for £8,600 at auction ...
Wainwright fans join felltop challenge for killed police officer's family Grough 29/04/12 - Aficionados of the late Alfred Wainwright climbed a Lakeland fell as part in an event to light up the district’s mountains …
£14,000 boost to help disabled enjoy Lake District
News & Star 5/4/12 - An adventure charity for the disabled received a total £14,000 from the Wainwright Society as a result of its fundraising throughout 2011 …
Wainwright fans head to the fells to help wildlife charity
Grough 16/03/12 -
A series of challenge walks by aficionados of author Alfred Wainwright will help a charity’s bid to preserve and extend an upland plant …
Pennine Journey Supporters Club
Grough 26/01/12 - Wainwright Society hands over Pennine Journey route to new club ...
Wainwright archive to return to Kendal
Grough 15/12/11 - The archive of Alfred Wainwright will be opened to the public after a successful bid by Cumbria County Council ...
Wainwright Society raises funds for Cumbria Wildlife Trust Grough 19/11/11 - Wainwright fans back wildlife charity to mark twin anniversaries ...
Blue Plaque & Information Board unveiled at Settle Station
Craven Herald 6/10/11 - Blue plaque marks epic walk of hiking pioneer ...
Happy Valley footpath dispute
Yorkshire Post 26/09/11 - Following a walkers’ bible into a dispute ...
An evening with Alfred Wainwright (John Burland)
Grough
12/09/11 - Wainwright fan will reprise dramatised account of author's life ...
Pennine Journey
Yorkshire Post
6/09/11 -
Famed walker’s first steps inspire new route ...
Wainwright Memorial Lecture by
Hunter Davies
Grough 24/08/11 - Wainwright biographer will deliver memorial lecture ...
Julias baby boy is a breath of fresh air
Grough 5/8/2011 Walking celebrityand Honorary member of the Wainwright Society, Julia Bradbury has given birth to a baby boy – and named him after a westerly wind …
Wainwright Society Calendar
Grough 24/07/11 -
Wainwright Society Calendar will boost disabled charity funds again ...
Blundellsands grandfather completes marathon trek of 214 mountains - Crosby Herald 9/5/2011 A grandfather has succeeded in his mission to trek the 214 Lake District peaks.
Roger Kenyon, 62, of Blundellsands, scaled the final fell in the mountain range affectionately known as The Wainwrights on Friday …
Broadcaster lends support to walking festival launch - North West Evening Mail 31/5/2011 Broadcaster Eric Robson set the Black Combe Walking Festival on the path to success at Millom on Friday night.
Mr Robson travelled from his Wasdale home to explain how a friendship with best-selling Lakeland author Alfred Wainwright grew from the making of a TV series in the 1980s …
Wainwright fans walk 100 miles to raise cash for disabled trust - Grough 30/5/2011 An outdoors charity is £2,000 better off thanks to aficionados of the late author Alfred Wainwright, after they recreated one of his early ventures into the Lake District …
Members follow in footsteps of Lake District Legend - Westmorland Gazette 30/5/ 2011 A mammoth 102-miles, which were trodden by a Lake District fell walking legend 80 years ago have been re-traced to raise £2,000 for charity.
Members of the Wainwright Society stepped on to the fells and took in 133 walks in Wainwright’s Whitsuntide tour - which the well-known walker devised and embarked on in 1931 …
Wainwright Society members re-create 1931 walk for charity - Grough 9/3/2011 Aficionados of the late Lakeland author Alfred Wainwright will follow in his footsteps in a marathon challenge to raise cash for charity …
Walking celeb Julia's baby news 'a bit of a miracle'
Grough - 27/2/2011
Alfred Wainwright, you'd be proud of me: Sue Lawley tackles the lovely Lake District
13/2/2011
Sue Lawley recalls Alfred Wainwright and writes about her own Coast to Coast walk ....
Wainwright calendar cash boost for mountain rescuers
9/2/2011
Fans of the late Alfred Wainwright have provided a financial boost to mountain rescuers from the proceeds of calendar sales ....
Wainwright inspires graphic designer
3/2/2011
A graphic designer, Jack Schulze, has been inspired by Wainwright's diagrams of the ascent of fells to produce an unusual drawing of the city of Manhattan ....
Fighting talk as forest campaigners vow to keep 'our land'
31/1/2011
Eric Robson was invited to address a rally at Grizedale in order to protest against Government plans to sell off England’s forests ....
Wainwright fans say forest sell-off means return to 'bad old days'
Grough - 20/1/2011
More than 30 years ago, Alfred Wainwright railed against what he saw as the ruination of one of his favourite Lakeland valleys by blanket afforestation ....
Anger over Cumbria countryside cutback proposals
Westmorland Gazette - 12/1/2011
The Wainwright Society has slammed Cumbria County Council over plans to cut £806,000 funding to countryside access services such as footpaths ....
Wainwright fans' funds will boost disabled activity centre (The Lake District Calvert Trust)
Grough - 11/1/2011
A Lakeland outdoor activity centre for people with disabilities will benefit from the fundraising efforts of a fellwalking author’s aficionados ....
Wainwrights Society's alarm at proposed cuts in funding for footpaths in Cumbria
Grough 5/1/2011
