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 ...

When an English accountant named Alfred Wainwright first went to the lonely hills of northern England in 1930, he was a lonely man. But the cool, empty vistas of moor and mountain must have soaked up ...

Global by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin and Giovanni Rigano, published by Hodder Children's Books, is the very first graphic novel to be shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize, as part of its children's ...

When the young Alfred Wainwright first saw the mountains of Lakeland it was an experience that changed his life. As an old man he recreated his love affair with Lakeland in the company of Eric Robson, ...

THE Wainwright Society have responded to the recent reveal that a new Wetherspoons pub in the Lake District has been named after writer.

Julia Bradbury follows in the footsteps of legendary guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright by walking across the whole of northern England from the west to the east coast . This was Wainwright's last ...