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	Alfred Wainwright - News & media
		Alfred Wainwright published the first of his Pictorial Guides to the Lake District in May 1955.
		Jordan Ross is the youngest climber to conquer all 214 "Wainwright Fells" in the Lake District.
		Coast to Coast: Alfred Wainwright, who conceived of this path in 1973, was careful to call it a coast-to-coast walk, not the coast-to-coast walk.
	www.wainwright.org.uk /media (678 words)

	Wainwright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred Wainwright, a writer of guide books to the fells of the English Lake District.
		Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, a United States Army general and the commanding officer of Allied forces in The Philippines, during World War II.
		Rufus Wainwright, a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and son of Loudon Wainwright III.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wainwright (271 words)

	Alfred Wainwright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred Wainwright (1907 – 1991) was best known for his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells.
		The guide was prepared with the aid of four helpers (Harry Appleyard, Len Chadwick, Cyril Moore and Lawrence Smith) and its preparation was affected by the major outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in 1966 and 1967, which closed access to many of the moors.
		Wainwright was a not great fan of the Pennine moorland terrain, especially in the wet and mist, and his book concludes characteristically:
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Wainwright (479 words)

	The Alfred Wainwright Centenary 2007
		Wainwright, born in Blackburn in 1907, wrote more than 60 guides to walks in the Lake District and north of England before his death in 1991.
		Tony Osborne was commissioned, with funds from the Ida Carroll Trust, to write a piece, "Wainwright Ways" in memory of AW - marking 1907-2007 - and also in tribute to his wife, Betty.
		A drunken father, poverty and grime in the shadow of a forest of mill town chimneys.
	wainwright.org.uk /events/2007/centenary.html (770 words)

	Lakeland Landscape - Alfred Wainwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alfred Wainwright was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1907, the son of a stonemason, and was brought up in poor circumstances.
		Wainwright was dissatisfied with the accuracy of existing maps, so, in 1952, he began to pen his own series of walking guides, each lovingly handwritten with painstakingly accurate maps and beautifully drawn views.
		Alfred Wainwright, a modest and humble man, died in 1991, having admirably given away most of his considerable earnings to animal-rescue charities.
	www.lakelandscape.co.uk /wainwright.htm (307 words)

	Telegraph \| Travel \| Britain: In the footsteps of the master
		Alfred Wainwright (he hated that "Alfred", and kept it concealed as long as he could) was the most popular, the best-loved and the most respected writer of guidebooks for walkers that Britain has produced.
		Wainwright's books Alfred Wainwright was an astonishingly prolific author, given the meticulous, hand-written and drawn nature of most of his work.
		Wainwright's stated hope was that walkers would be inspired by his coast to coast walk to create their own route.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2005/04/23/etwainsomer.xml&sSheet=/travel/2005/04/23/ixtrvhome.html (1742 words)

	Independent Online Edition > UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alfred Wainwright transformed the landscape of Britain with his superbly knowledgeable guides of the Lake District.
		Nor, perhaps, could he reasonably have expected his fame to survive into the 21st century, for Alfred Wainwright – or A Wainwright, as he preferred to be known – was a man singularly out of tune with the modern world.
		Within a year, Wainwright had retired, split up with f his first wife, committed himself to the relationship that would culminate in his second, happier marriage in 1970 –; and begun a 24-year twilight of growing contentment and success.
	travel.independent.co.uk /uk/article295614.ece (2434 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alfred Wainwright
		In geography a fell is a treeless mountain landscape that has been shaped by glacier ice earlier in history.
		Alfred Wainwright listed 214 fells in total in his series of seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells.
		Wainwright was a not great fan of the Pennine moorland terrain, especially in the wet and mist, and his book concludes characteristically: 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alfred-Wainwright (1349 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Wainwright guides saved
		Alfred Wainwright's famous illustrated guides to the Lake District are to be reprinted in his home town.
		Since Wainwright - known as AW to his legions of followers - published his first book, a "love-letter" to The Eastern Fells in 1955, his books have sold more than two million copies.
		Wainwright spent 13 years writing and illustrating the seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells - dubbed the backpack bibles.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2761445.stm (340 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Wainwright guides are shelved
		Wainwright guides have been in the pockets of fell walkers in Cumbria for generations.
		Eric Robson, presenter of BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time and chairman of the Alfred Wainwright Society, says the hunt is now on for a new publisher.
		Wainwright, who died in 1991, wrote more than 50 books, including seven Lakeland pictorial guides, of which only a handful are left in print.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2657249.stm (286 words)

	Wainwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Wainwright, born in Blackburn but later resident in Kendal, is best known nowadays for his pictorial guides to the Lakeland fells compiled between 1952 and 1966.
		Wainwright, like Priestley, suffers from the weather and a streaming cold for much of his northern journey.
		Wainwright has old-fashioned views on women and their place in society, but gives relaxed advice on choosing a wife.
	online.unn.ac.uk /faculties/art/humanities/cns/m-wainwright.html (361 words)

	News & Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alfred Wainwright, who is still regarded as the undisputed master of the mountains, published the first of his Pictorial Guides to the Lake District – the Eastern Fells - in May 1955.
		Now the Wainwright Society, whose primary aim is to keep alive the things he promoted through his guidebooks, wants walkers to climb one of the 214 fells from the guides and the 56 from the outlying fells in one week in May. So far 70 fells have been booked for The Wainwright Challenge.
		Wainwright was also the creator of A Coast to Coast Walk, which is 190 miles from St Bees to Robin Hood’s Bay in Yorkshire – now one of the most popular long distance walks in the country.
	www.newsandstar.co.uk /news/viewarticle.aspx?id=174396 (509 words)

	Alfred Wainwright Maps and Books
		When Alfred Wainwright left Blackburn in 1941 to move to the Lake District he was given a folding camera as a going away present — a camera he took with him on all his fell walks.
		Part of a handsome range of stationery inspired by Alfred Wainwright.
		We still have limited supplies of the discontinued Ordnance Survey Outdoor Leisure 34 which maps the eastern section of Wainwright’s Coast to Coast but I’m afraid that OL 33, the map of the western section, is sold out.
	www.stridingedge.com /store/wainwright_books_maps2.html (483 words)

	A Wainwright (1907-1991)
		Alfred Wainwright was born in Blackburn, the son of a stonemason, and brought up in poor circumstances.
		In 1972 Wainwright devised the Coast to Coast Walk, which traversed what he described as 'the grandest territory in the north of England'.
		Wainwright in Lakeland, published by The Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal in 1983, is a summary of all of AW's work to this date with samples from each of the books.
	www.visitcumbria.com /wainwrgt.htm (567 words)

	Tryfan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The works of the late Alfred Wainwright, whose guides to the lakes have informed generations of fell walkers, are being taken out of print because of declining sales.
		The announcement that Wainwright will disappear from the shelves will dismay admirers of his work.
		Lake District guidebooks produced by the late Alfred Wainwright have been saved after the publisher, Michael Joseph, said it could no longer justify maintaining the titles.
	www.nikrum31.freeserve.co.uk /DRACWC/News.html (260 words)

	Wainwright Coast to Coast walk
		Wainwright's path spanned the entire North of England from coast to coast.
		Wainwright published his coast to coast pictorial guide in 1973 and it has since become the most popular long distance path in England.
		Wainwright apparently encouraged all who embark on this venture to dip their toes into the Sea at each end, and who were we to argue; fortunately etiquette allows you to keep your boots on.
	www.glnow.com /photos/coast/coast2coast.htm (6193 words)

	Coast to Coast Path: A Walk Across England
		Doreen Whitehead, the matriarch of Wainwright's Coast to Coast Path, was remembering growing up in Keld in the 1940s.
		Her husband, Ernest, lived at Ravenseat, almost a mile down the path toward Kirkby Stephen, and had to walk to school, rain or shine, sometimes arriving wet and cold and staying that way all day long.
		She was encouraged to maintain the guide by the late Alfred Wainwright himself, who originated the path in the 1970s.
	www.lehigh.edu /~wwt1/C2C/c2c.html (777 words)

	Lakestay details of famous guide book writer Alfred Wainwright
		On Saturday, November 9, 1952, Alfred Wainwright walked to the summit of Dove Crag on the eastern fells of the Lake District and returned to write the initial pages of his first pictorial guide.
		Broadcaster Eric Robson, who interviewed Wainwright in his later years for a TV series, believes that membership of the society could be vast and is keen for Wainwright's unstinting efforts to help people appreciate the full splendour of the Lakeland fells to be recognized.
		Wainwright considered Haystacks the best walk in the Lake District and had his ashes scattered on the 1,960ft (579m) summit following his death in 1991.
	www.lakestay.co.uk /wainwright.html (695 words)

	Alfred Wainwright - Lake District Links
		The Wainwright Society has no control over any of these sites, and as such accepts no responsility for their content or accuracy.
		Kendal Museum - Alfred Wainwright was Honorary Clerk and Curator to Kendal Museum from 1945-1974.
		A Wainwright (1907-1991) - A brief biography of Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), writer and illustrator of walking guidebooks.
	www.wainwright.org.uk /links (1107 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Famed fells guides join the 21st century
		In a labour of love which almost matches the original epic charting of the mountains by Alfred Wainwright, the great man's steps are being followed by a disciple who has already made 3,000 hand-drawn changes to the first of the seven famous volumes.
		As dogged and meticulous as Wainwright, who died 14 years ago after a lifelong ban on any alterations, Chris Jesty will be out again on the fells this morning after leaving home at 2am to be above the 1,500ft contour by first light.
		Although a notoriously clumsy walker, Wainwright applied his ledger-trained mind to almost every rock, reproducing thousands of fellsides with photographic detail in his pen-and-ink maps, which have sold more than 2m copies.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1505276,00.html (693 words)

	TRANS Nr. 15: C. W. R. D. Moseley (Hughes Hall, Cambridge): 'Get Thee Up into the High Mountain': The English Lake ...
		Wainwright's quirks are no more hidden than they would be in conversation, and are literally inscribed onto the landscape he depicts.
		Wainwright did not like people: he depicts a landscape without people, or if there is a figure, it is turned away, perhaps smoking a pipe - Wainwright drawing himself out of the picture.
		Wainwright maps most of the possible pedestrian routes, ignoring almost completely the usual structuring of the man-made landscape by roads and towns and villages: settlements are nearly always off Wainwright's maps, indicated only by an arrow and a distance.
	www.inst.at /trans/15Nr/05_10/moseley15.htm (2737 words)

	The Wainwright Society - Alfred Wainwright
		The Third Annual General Meeting of the Wainwright Society, held on Saturday 25th March 2006 at Kendal Town Hall, is to be followed by an illustrated lecture by Derry Brabbs.
		The Society is now compiling a register of those who have climbed all 214 fells described in the seven volumes of A. Wainwright's "A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells".
		The Wainwright Society is an Associate Member of The Lake District Tourism and Conservation Partnership and has been busy raising funds to help support conservation projects within Cumbria.
	www.wainwright.org.uk (295 words)

	THERE are many reasons to celebrate the securing of future publication of Alfred Wainwright's legendary walking books, ...
		HERE are many reasons to celebrate the securing of future publication of Alfred Wainwright's legendary walking books, and the printing of them back in Kendal.
		Wainwright always wanted his books to be printed in Kendal, a town he loved as much as the terrain that surrounds it.
		The timing of the deal could not have been better as it not only secures current jobs in the town, it could mean a few more, which is doubly welcome at a time when employment is under such pressure.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~burge01/AW/Text1.htm (522 words)

	Recommended Maps and Books for walking in the English Lake District
		The first edition of this was published in 1960 but as with the Wainwright guides the routes stand the test of time, if not the equipment descriptions.
		This is Wainwright's guidebook to the Coast to Coast walk, produced in the same style as the Pictorial Guides to the Lake District.
		Wainwright produced this in collaboration with photographer, Derry Brabbs.
	www.lakedistrictwalks.com /books (1581 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Cumbria \| Hikers in bid to climb 200 peaks
		In May 1955, fellwalker Alfred Wainwright wrote the beloved guide to the Lake District.
		Now the Wainwright Society is challenging walkers to play their part in a week-long exercise that will see 214 Lake District peaks climbed.
		Wainwright, who lived from 1907 to 1991, was known as AW to generations of fellwalkers and is still regarded as the undisputed master of the mountains in the Lake District.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/england/cumbria/4342943.stm (248 words)

	Alfred Wainwright
		Sadly, the current publisher has just withdrawn the guides from future publication.
		The walk starts at St Bees, travelling through Cleator, Ennerdale, Rosthwaite, Patterdale, Shap, Kirkby Stephen, then leaving Cumbria and wandering through the North York Moors National Park.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alfred_Wainwright.html (150 words)

	South Lakeland District Council :: 16 March 2004 - Alfred Wainwright exhibition
		A fascinating exhibition looking at the life and works of Alfred Wainwright the well known fell walker, author and artist, opens at Kendal Museum on Saturday 1 May 2004.
		Wainwright's hand-drawn and hand-written pictorial guides to the Lakeland Fells have been in use for over 40 years, and are still popular.
		The Wainwright Society was founded in 2002 to keep alive the things which AW promoted through his guidebooks, started 50 years ago, and the many other publications which were a labour of love during a large portion of his life.
	www.southlakeland.gov.uk /main.asp?page=787 (590 words)

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