Walking Holidays in the UK

Three of Mickledore Travel’s Walking Holidays pass through this area:

The Coast to Coast Walk is most affected, with the 21 miles from Shap to Kirkby Stephen falling in the potential new designation.

Depending on where the new boundaries are finally drawn, parts of the first couple of days of the Westmorland Way between Appleby and Crosby Ravensworth could also be covered.

Fionally a short section of the Dales Way where it crosses the Lune Valley could be covered.

There are certainly some great landscapes in this area and it has always been an anomaly that the remote northern Howgills have had no recognition to date.

What difference will it make? New development will be more restricted then at present, and there might be some extra funding available for path maintenance, which would go amiss, especially on the Westmorland Way. On the downside the opportunities for new accommodation would be further restricted. Perhaps most importantly it could save some very pleasant, relatively remote, areas from new wind farm developments – great for the landscape, perhaps marginally less good for global warming...