Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is a Wainwright?: Alex on Fairfield. In England's far north west is a region of world-famous beauty that has been attracting ...

Amateur and professional photographers are being encouraged to put Alfred Wainwright’s Lake District in the picture for a new competition. The Cumberland Ale Keswick Mountain Festival is launching the ...

The Wainwright Society came into being at Ambleside Youth Hostel on November 9 2002. This was an apt date, being fifty years to the day that Wainwright penned the first page of The Eastern Fells, the ...

Alfred Wainwright's name has become synonymous with the 214 peaks featured in his guide books [Chris Butterfield/Ken Shepherd] The Christmas break is a busy time for the Lake District, with ...

Andrew Nichol said he "owed it to" Wainwright to make the trip to the spot where his ashes were scattered Mountain rescue volunteers have helped a friend of Alfred Wainwright up a Lake District fell ...

Alfred Wainwright combined much of his writing with his day job as the borough treasurer of Kendal, Cumbria More than 65 years since his first guidebook was published, and 30 years on from his death, ...

A popular Coast to Coast walk across northern England is to have a £5.6 million upgrade, it has been announced. The route takes in three National Parks and was set out by the celebrated fell walker ...

A sketch by fell-walking legend Alfred Wainright which was expected to sell for hundreds of pounds has been auctioned for more than £10,000. The signed and framed drawing of Striding Edge on Helvellyn ...

The Christmas break is a busy time for the Lake District, with holidaymakers and day-trippers taking advantage of a bit of down time to "tick a Wainwright" - the practice of climbing one of 214 peaks ...