Category: Lyme Park

The joy of familiar walks

I love exploring and adventuring, the buzz of going somewhere new and seeing things for the first time is one of my main drivers to travel and find lesser known trails to walk on but, the reality for me at least, is this isn’t something I can do all the time. Living a peripatetic life

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A Lyme Park walk from Disley

Over the years a Lyme Park walk from Disley has been one of my “go to” walks when time is short but I want to feel as if I have got away. Since returning from Patagonia at the end of October walks have been few and far between due to a combination of working as

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A Lyme Park Loop

30.12.14 Walking with; Ruthy     After an Irish Christmas with the in-laws and a ceaseless flow of food and drink shaped hospitality, my belly had come to resemble something akin to that of Father Christmas himself. The extra stone and a bit of Turkey, Mince Pies, Guinness, Stilton, Port and chocolate needed to be

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Lyme Park and Rivington Pike- Two great local walks

12/13.2.14Walking with; Gary  Whilst the traditional image of Manchester is one of grim industrialisation, one of the reasons I have made it my home is because of the superb access it offers to the great outdoors! On a good day I can be in Windermere in 90 minutes, Llanberis is not much further and I

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Dog Bite

So there I was meandering around Lyme Park working on my navigation and map work and trying to better understand contours and re-entrants and the like. I was approaching “The Cage” when a little yappy Terrier type dog came hurtling towards me and circled me twice before biting me on the calf. I have to

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Another weekly wander or two……….

21/23.5.13Walking with; Nobody I love having the Peak District on my doorstep, it means when time is short or inclination is in lowish supply I can still get out and experience some of the finest countryside Britain has to offer without it really feeling like an effort….and so it was last week, two very different

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A Canalside amble

15.11.12Walking with; Nobody A combination of family weddings and man flu have meant not much in the way of walking lately and, on the rare occasion I’ve been free, not a great deal of energy to climb tall, pointy things. The beauty of walking however is, of course, you can do it anywhere, and there

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A Lyme Park Loop

12.4.12 Walking with; Nobody When I first moved to the North West one of the first places I visited was Lyme Park and it’s remained a firm favourite ever since whenever I get the itch for a few miles. The house itself is the largest in Cheshire and is Grade one listed. It was built

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