The The Wainwright Memorial Walk ([New] ed)

The Wainwright Memorial Walk is the 102-mile route through the Lake District that A.

Wainwright - legendary author, artist and fell-walker - set out to walk with three friends over the Whitsunday holiday of 1931.

The route the friends took - recorded in sketch maps at the time - is highlighted here on maps from Wainwright's much-loved Pictorial Guides, accompanied by text from the guides and Wainwright's other writings.

Wainwright's walk - originally planned to take six days - is here split into eleven manageable stages.

These can be taken either as independent one-day walks or as a whole.

The route starts in Windermere and ends in Ambleside.Along the way, Wainwright promises to lead the walker everywhere worth mentioning in the Lake District, on a route devised to make sure that 'Every lake, Every valley, Every mountain, will be seen if not actually visited'.

Born in Blackburn in 1907, Alfred Wainwright left school at the age of 13.

A holiday at the age of 23 kindled a life-long love affair with the Lake District.

Following a move to Kendal in 1941 Wainwright devoted every spare minute of his days to researching and compiling the original seven Pictorial Guides.

Other guidebooks and sketchbooks followed. Following Wainwright's death in 1991, Michael Joseph bought the complete list.

In 2003 the rights were sold to Frances Lincoln, and the printing of the Pictorial Guides returned to their original location in Kendal.

All seven Pictorial Guides and many other guides and sketchbooks have been re-issued by Frances Lincoln in an on-going programme of re-publication and revision.