Graham top of the walk (From Community Newsgroup)

Graham top of the walk

12:00pm Tuesday 29th July 2008

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FOR those who’ve done, thought about doing, or just read about the Pennine Way, the Coast-to-Coast and the Wainwrights, don’t mothball those walking boots yet.

Local author and fell walker Graham Wilson has devised - and walked - a new high-level circular route based on the County Tops, old and new, of northern England.

Volume I of his new book Tops of the North, out this month, covers the western reaches, starting at Three Shires Head, where Cheshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire meet, and finishing at Carlisle.

On the way, it climbs, among others, Kinder Scout, Black Hill, Pendle Hill, Arnside Knot and the Old Man of Coniston, culminating in a continuous traverse of the Lakes Threethousanders, travels across the South Lancs moors, the Forest of Bowland, Leighton Moss nature reserve, Morecambe Bay, Arthur Ransome country and a variety of national parks, encounters Pendle witches, the noble art of shin kicking, Rossendale bonesetters, Carnforth Station, Lakeland smugglers, a Victorian pepperpot, plus the odd inn or two.

As ever, Wilson makes a stimulating companion: This is a book of the North, its people and places, but most of all the moors and fells and the sound of the curlew calling. Enjoy the experience—even if you never get out of your armchair and on to the Wilson Way.

Tops of the North is published in hardback by Millrace at £14.95

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