Listed below are a selection of Wainwright and walking related media articles. If you find any relevant news stories relating to Wainwright, the Lake District or fell-walking then send the link to webmaster@wainwright.org.uk
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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
Wainwright's early years revealed
The Whitehaven News 23/11/2010
A Whitehaven bookseller has revealed how a dear friend and early mentor of
his was the same man who taught the young Alfred Wainwright to draw ....
AW on the TV
Westmorland Gazette 15/10/2010
Alfred Wainwright is the subject of two programmes on the BBC Inside Out series. They feature Wainwright's lone walk from Settle in the Yorkshire Dales up to Hadrian's Wall and back, which he undertook on the eve of the Second World War ....
BBC programmes look at Wainwright's early years
Grough 16/10/2010
Alfred Wainwright’s early years come under scrutiny on the airwaves with two programmes about the curmudgeonly fellwalker ....
Wainwright Society 2011 Calendar
Grough 24/7/2010
Mountain rescuers will benefit from this year’s sales of a Calendar produced by fans of the late Alfred Wainwright. The Wainwright Society will repeat the successful format of its first calendar, which last year raised £3,800 for the Fix the Fells project ....
Debenhams new model?
fashionista.com 27 Jul 2010 -"Department store Debenhams has enlisted a famous new model to help sell their menswear. If you think they’re banking on chiseled abs, a sparkling smile, and curly mane to attract shoppers, think again.
Debenhams’ new menswear model is Alfred Wainwright ...."
Wainwright Society recreates historic first walk
Lancashire Telegraph 8/6/10 - "Fans of fell walker Alfred Wainwright gathered yesterday to spend a day celebrating his life. Members of the Wainwright Society, many dressed in period costume, marked the 80th anniversary...."
