Hotel Crooklands Kendal

Crooklands Kendal, Lake District, Cumbria, England, LA7 7NW, United Kingdom

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A travel blog entry by esmeann

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We met my brother and sister in law, Keith and Sylvia at the finishing point The Anchor Inn. We had teas and coffee, which came after 30mins, nice place but rubbish service.

We have are now taking a break until 28th dec, when we have 4 sections over 4 days finishing with a last day of 7 mils from Rodley to Leeds. Anyone who would like to join us are very welcome, but you must make your own travel arrangements.



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Section 8 - Gannow to Foulridge

A travel blog entry by esmeann

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... have lunch under the shelter of an M65 bridge over the canal. However, we passed 3 good benches on the side of the canal and took this opportunity to sit down and have lunch. However, it was a short-lived rest as the sky came over black as night and we made a hasty exit before the impending downpour.
Onwards and upwards to Barrowford lock system which raises the water to the highest level on the canal. We ...

Nick's place

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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I had wanted to put a plaque or something near to the trees at Cockshott point but the National Trust no longer allow this. Therefore I instead obtained permission from them to place a geocache close by and despite a slight oversignt by me (in that the location I had chosen was slightly too near to another cache - and breaks the rules slightly) ...

If at first you don't succeed...

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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of course, try again! And this time setting off from Glencoyne (slightly further up from Glenridding where we started from to climb Glenridding Dodd - see last visit/entry) made a huge difference.

Setting off from the National Trust car park at Glencoyne, takes you along a public footpath that oddly goes straight through the middle of someone's front lawn and garden! I forget the name of the farm now, but it's close to the houses at Seldom Seen which ...

Glenridding Dodd but no Sheffield Pike this time

A travel blog entry by tiggerbird

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... across the fells and at one point ended up face first in a large mound of bracken... fortunately just missing the muddy swamp beside it! We trundled on but lasted about 10 minutes after that before turning back and descending; defeated, wet and cold!

A tea shop stop at the bottom soon recuperated our sorry faces and we set out to hunt down a couple of geocaches before our return to ...

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