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  Alfred Wainwright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wainwright's favourite peak in the Lake District was Haystacks, above Buttermere, and this is where his ashes were scattered after his death.
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:
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 Wainwright Bank Massachusetts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A Wainwright is a fell in the English Lake District given a chapter by Alfred Wainwright in his his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.
Wainwright'' represents an important step in constitutional law made by the Supreme Court in applying the Sixth Amendment (right to counsel) and the Fourteenth Amendment (no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law) to all citizens.
Wainwright was a not great fan of the Pennine moorland terrain, especially in the wet and mist, and his book concludes characteristically: :"well I hope you enjoy it, I really do...The walk will do you good.
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 Wainwright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A wainwright is a person who builds and repairs wagons: wain being an English dialectical variant of the word wagon, a horse-drawn wheeled vehicle used for agricultural purposes, and wright meaning a craftsman or builder.
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.
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 Alfred Wainwright -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alfred Wainwright (1907 – 1991) was best known for his seven Pictorial Guides to the (A popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain) Lakeland Fells.
Wainwright's favourite peak in the Lake District was (A stack of hay) Haystacks, above (additional info and facts about Buttermere) Buttermere, and this is where his ashes were scattered after his death.
Wainwright was a not great fan of the (additional info and facts about Pennine) Pennine (Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss) moorland terrain, especially in the wet and mist, and his book concludes characteristically:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Al/Alfred_Wainwright.htm   (475 words)

  
 Lake District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This area is separated from the rest of the Lakes by a deep moat of low ground - Bassenthwaite Lake, Keswick and the Glenderamackin valley.
More extensive lists of fells can be found on the list of fells in the Lake District and in the list of Wainwrights.
The relatively low height of most of the fells means that while snow is expected during the winter, they can be free of snow at any time of the year.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 :: 1820 Settlers - Wainwright's Party ::
Wainwright wrote to the Colonial Department that he had been 'engaged for the last 20 years in an extensive line of business, and having during that period met with an almost unprecedented series of losses and disappointments', he was eager to make a new beginning.
This was a mixed party; Jonathan Wainwright and his son Daniel, John Braithwaite, Charles Cockcroft, William Hartley and a latecomer to the party, FP Bentley, were all 'free' settlers who had paid their own deposits and in some cases those of their servants.
This is the London list; no Agent of Transports' Return showing the state of the parties on their arrival at the Cape has been traced for the John.
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 Database of British Hills: about the list
We are not the first to collate the lists into a single database, but by putting our version in the public domain we hope to save other hillgoers the effort of compiling their own.
The other listed summits do not make a strong case for being given a separate identity and are given in the RHB update as examples (not a complete list) of hills with two or more nearby points of apparently equal height.
We mention that the task of producing a definitive list of summits is far from straightforward because of the many occasions when the location of Wainwright's summit is not coincident with the highest point in the vincinity.
www.biber.fsnet.co.uk /database_notes.html   (5131 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Alfred Wainwright
Pen and ink refers to a technique of drawing or writing, in which colored (this includes fl) ink is applied to paper using a pen or other stylus.
In geography a fell is a treeless mountain landscape that has been shaped by glacier ice earlier in history.
Wainwright was a not great fan of the Pennine moorland terrain, especially in the wet and mist, and his book concludes characteristically: 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alfred-Wainwright   (1151 words)

  
 Lake District
Alfred Wainwright gave a list of 214 fells in his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lake District, which walkers still use today.
Of these, Wainwright gives four of these a height of over 3000 ft ; Scafell Pike (3210 ft, 980 m), Scafell (3162 ft, 965 m), Helvellyn (3118 ft, 951 m) and Skiddaw (3053 ft, 932 m).
Despite its name, there is only one body of water in the park with the word Lake in the name, Bassenthwaite Lake.
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 Alta Apts. LLC v Wainwright (2004 NY Slip Op 50797(U))
Wainwright to disclose her social security and bank account numbers, petitioner would have been able to subpoena her unredacted tax and bank records and obtain unimpeded access to all of respondents' private information, not just information relevant to primary residence.
Wainwright would not have been required to file an NYC-203 if she was a full-year New York City resident in 1999, regardless of her husband's residency.
Wainwright did not provide the supplemental schedules and documentation showing that she had income-tax liability to New York City as either a full- or part-year resident from 1999-2002, the years in question.
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 Alfred Wainwright - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
These handwritten and hand-drawn works of art have given inspiration and guidance to fellwalkers for the last forty years.
In the Pictorial Guides, Wainwright described 214 fells in the Lake District.
BBC News Report on Wainwright guides being dropped by Michael Joseph (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2657249.stm)
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 Encyclopedia: Cumbrian Mountains   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alfred Wainwright wrote a series of seven Pictorial Guides to the Lake District, which walkers still use today.
Sheltered valleys experience gales on an average of 5 days a year; the coastal areas have 20 days of gales; while the fell tops may have 100 days of gales per year.
More fells can be found on the list of fells in the Lake District and in the list of Wainwrights.
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 The Lake District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Alfred Wainwright gave a list of 214 fells in his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lake District, which walkers still usetoday.
Of these, Wainwright gives four of these a height of over 3000 ft ; Scafell Pike (3210 ft, 980 m), Scafell (3162 ft,965 m), Helvellyn (3118 ft, 951 m) and Skiddaw (3053 ft, 932 m).
The relatively low height of most of the fells means that while snow is expected during the winter, they can be free ofsnow at any time of the year.
www.therfcc.org /the-lake-district-335383.html   (600 words)

  
 Lake District -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Lakes, as the region is also called, were made famous during the early (additional info and facts about 19th century) 19th century by the (Literature in metrical form) poetry and writings of (A romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)) William Wordsworth.
The relatively low height of most of the fells means that while snow is expected during the winter, they can be free of (A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground) snow at any time of the year.
More extensive lists of fells can be found on the (additional info and facts about list of fells in the Lake District) list of fells in the Lake District and in the (additional info and facts about list of Wainwrights) list of Wainwrights.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lake_district.htm   (2833 words)

  
 The Nab - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation The Nab   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It has a moderate height of 576 metres (1890 feet) and lies in the quieter eastern high ground between Ullswater and Haweswater Reservoir.
The Nab is included in Alfred Wainwright’s list of Lakeland fells and many walkers feel compelled to climb it to complete their list of “Wainwrights” even though it is not a significant fell, it is awkward to reach and strictly speaking it lies on private land.
When Alfred Wainwright wrote his pictorial guide to the Far Eastern Fells in the 1950s The Nab, as part of the Martindale Deer Forest was strictly out of bounds, he wrote in the chapter on The Nab:
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 Excite España - Foros - Re: Lakeland Summits - Where is the top. - uk.rec.walking
Wainwright had some odd ideas about what constituted a hill/summit and he wasn't helped by the errors on the Maps he used.
It so happens that the LDWA has just persuaded one of its members (Stephen Walker) to produce a GR list of the Wainwrights but I have yet to actually plots the positions he uses.
Stephens "rules" include "The Hills are as high as Wainwright said" and "The fell tops are where Wainwright said they were".
www.excite.es /newsgroup/my/message/body/uk.rec.walking/4426274/10063117   (286 words)

  
 TimesDispatch.com | Wainwright exits UR for DePaul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
When Wainwright left UNC Wilmington to accept the UR job in April of 2002, he suggested that Richmond would be his final coaching stop.
Wainwright is expected to bring assistant Gary DeCesare and his son, Scott, Richmond's director of basketball operations, with him from UR to DePaul.
Wainwright's three UR teams were 50-41 with a pair of postseason bids.
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 NPR : Getting Loud with Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Wainwright III keeps up a touring schedule, giving audiences a healthy dose of his personality.
World Cafe, August 30, 2005 · Loudon Wainwright III first rose to fame in the late 1960s as a witty and honest songwriter.
After being inspired by Bob Dylan and applying himself to a career in music, Wainwright brought a poet's aesthetic and a wit's honesty to his songs, winning fans and impressing critics with a string of albums that began with his self-titled debut in 1970.
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 How to start Peak Bagging   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Wainwrights are a good place to start if you have access to The Lake District (there are 214).
Try to mingle in with the sheep and when questioned, maintain an unshakable belief that a thin fl line on the map denotes a right-of-way - and not the field boundary that is actually indicates.
All the pdf files currently available can be accessed from a list in the left-hand column of this page (if it not already there, click here to open it) - to download each file, follow the on-screen instructions from there.
www.go4awalk.com /walks/walklists/startbagging.php   (1357 words)

  
 Welcome to Get Yer Boots On
The hills section contains a complete list of the Wainwrights, Munro's and the Welsh 100, though I must admit that I am not certain that the Munro list is complete, each time I pick up a magazine it seems that another one has been added to it.
Well the truth is a "Wainwright" is a hill or mountain that Alfred Wainwright wrote about and sketched in great detail in his guidebooks "Pictorial Guides To The Lakeland Fells".
This section was originally intended to have a list of scrambles in the Lake District along with the Scramblers Code and also the routes that we have taken up the scrambles, however I got to thinking what if someone followed our route and got into difficulties or worse still came to any harm.
www.geocities.com /getyer/index.2.html   (969 words)

  
 Peakbagging
I use 4 different list; Hewitts, Wainwrights, Marilyns and county tops (still not updated for the various local government re-organisations of the 1990s).
The worst example was when I did 14 Wainwrights in 3 days in 9 different walks (including the one when I failed to get up through a mixture of fatigue and inclement weather) There were pleasures in this but overall there was a feeling of guilt and pleasure diminished.
I've finished the Wainwright list now and I have to say that it was a bit of a millstone right at the end.
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 michael dunne :: hills   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
There are 214 hills mentioned in his guidebooks that constitute the ‘Wainwrights’ and so far I have walked up 62 of them.
I would not recommend that you rely solely on Wainwright's books now, since they are out of date, but they do give a wonderful introduction and show the writer's deep love of the mountains in a way that most guidebooks can only imitate.
A list of Wainwrights I have climbed so far.
www.michaeldunne.me.uk /lakes.html   (318 words)

  
 michael dunne :: wainwrights i have climbed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Low cloud prevented us from enjoying any views or taking any good photographs, but we enjoyed it all the same.
Famous for being Alfred Wainwright's favourite spot on earth (and where his ashes were scattered).
The only occasion on which we have come close to being truly lost was on this top.
www.michaeldunne.me.uk /wainwrights.html   (1247 words)

  
 Around the Wainwrights: Introduction
The first completed round, except by AW of course, was achieved within weeks of the publication of his final volume in 1967.
Having finished the Wainwrights in 1988, on Seatallan, this is not the tale of my initial round.
I decided that my way of marking the approaching Millennium would be to complete a round of the Wainwrights within the preceding two years.
www.geocities.com /Baja/Trails/7267/arwain   (832 words)

  
 OUTDOORSmagic OTH features - How To Make A Memory Map Wainwright Logbook
Choose the icon for a Wainwright from the drop down menu and insert it at the required spot.
To change an uncompleted Wainwright to a completed one simply double click on the desired Wainwright icon and change the icon from the drop down file to the icon for a completed peak.
The ashes where Wainwright's ashes were scattered has been voted the number one Wainwright walk in the Lakes in an online poll by the Cumbria Tourist Board.
www.outdoorsmagic.com /news/article/mps/UAN/3230/v/1/sp   (1476 words)

  
 waypoints UK mountains hills Munros Wainwrights
Lists of GPS Waypoints for mountains and hills in the UK, to download in different formats; the link in the first column is the source of the grid references.
English hills and mountains; list reproduced from "The Mountains of England and Wales" by John and Anne Nuttall, published by Cicerone Press.
For each Wainwright the code starts with its height in metres (3 characters) then "W" followed by a number between 1 and 8 representing the volume of the Wainwright book, this is followed by "H" for Hewitt, "M" for Marilyn, "B" is its Both or "N" if its neither.
www.36haroldstreet.freeserve.co.uk /waypoints.htm   (1031 words)

  
 Wainwrights comments - The Walkers Chat Forums
I have always enjoyed reading Wainwrights writing as he is very funny.
I am hoping to follow Wainwrights, my fathers and many other peoples footsteps in doing the pennine way with some friends.
Reading Wainwrights guide has made me want to do it even more both for my own personal pleasure and also to pay respect to my dad who first got me into hill-walking.
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