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LETJOG PEAK No 48: The Cheviot, Northumberland (815 metres) Walk Date: Tuesday 12 September 2023 My 48th and antepenultimate County Top walk was certainly not anticlimactic. Far from it, and far from human settlement, this walking day across the peaty terrain of the remote Cheviots ranks as demanding as any of the rambles on myContinue reading “Vertigo”

LETJOG PEAK No 47: Bishop Wilton Wold, East Riding of Yorkshire (246 metres) Walk Date: Monday 11 September 2023 One of the great pleasures of this LETJOG Peaks adventure has lain in discovering new parts of our varied island, and the countryside of Yorkshire’s East Riding is one such region that I have rarely visitedContinue reading “Sheep”

Wednesday 6 September 2023 Well, we all need a break from time to time, and this week my LETJOG Peaks challenge is on hold whilst Rachel and I take in the sunshine of North Norfolk and enjoy a slower way of life for a few days. Despite the early autumnal heat such relaxation does notContinue reading “Dreamy Skies”

LETJOG PEAK No 46: Mickle Fell, County Durham (788 metres) Walk Date: Sunday 27 August 2023 It is my fairly certain guess that not many people get to climb Mickle Fell. I knew from the start of my LETJOG Peaks venture that this would be the most tricky County Top to conquer, as there areContinue reading “List Of Impossible Things”

LETJOG PEAK No 45: Bardon Hill, Leicestershire (278 metres) Walk Date: Wednesday 23 August 2023 Today’s walk proved to be one of contrasts: town and country, quarry and forest, activity and stillness, noise and silence. Coalville is an unusual town insofar as its existence is quite recent – a product of the Industrial Revolution. TheContinue reading “Footsteps”

LETJOG PEAK No 44: Cold Overton Park, Rutland (197 metres) Walk Date: Tuesday 22 August 2023 Rutland, at a mere 147 square miles, is the smallest of the provincial English shires and has just 40,000 inhabitants, but whilst this most modest of counties may lack something as far as rankings are concerned it certainly makesContinue reading “Surprise View”

LETJOG PEAK No 43: Green Hill, Lancashire (628 metres) Walk Date: Wednesday 16 August 2023 Travelling around the country by train can be quite a joy and, as I start writing this Blog on the rail service home from Lancaster after three glorious days of walking, I now have a spare couple of hours watchingContinue reading “Sunshine Smile”

LETJOG PEAK No 42: Whernside, North Yorkshire (736 metres) Walk Date: Tuesday 15 August 2023 Walking days do not come much better than this. Of all parts of the country (and certainly with a nod to the Lake District, to Cornwall and to my new-found loveliness in the Welsh borders) there is nowhere in ourContinue reading “Brighter Skies”

LETJOG PEAK No 41: Billinge Hill, Merseyside (179 metres) Walk Date: Monday 14 August 2023 More than a couple of folk have asked me why I am undertaking this LETJOG Peaks challenge. Having trekked the length of the country two years ago, why would I need, or want, to go traipsing around the country allContinue reading “The Fool On The Hill”

LETJOG PEAK No 40: Whitehorse Hill, Oxfordshire (261 metres) Walk Date: Friday 11 August 2023 I may have mentioned in one of my earlier Blogs that when I was very young, certainly well before the re-designation of the English counties under the 1972 Local Government Act, I had a jigsaw comprised of thick wooden piecesContinue reading “Jigsaw Falling Into Place”