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Wainwrights
and wrongs

STEVE ADAMS and pals enjoy the Kentmere fells apparently more than Alfred Wainwright during a hike in the Lake District


Wainwrights and wrongs

By STEVE ADAMS
Posted on 11 August 2015

For someone so enamoured with the fells of the Lake District, Alfred Wainwright certainly wasn’t averse to writing some fairly disparaging comments about them - most of the ones my friends and I visited during a lengthy hike of the Kentmere Horseshoe, as it happens.

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