Mark Richards
BiographyMark Richards' transition from full-time farmer to full-time outdoor writer has been a gradual one. In 1973, with the direct encouragement of Alfred Wainwright, he wrote his first walking guide to the Cotswold Way. Since then he has indulged his pleasure in exploring rural Britain by creating a range of walking guides.
In 1980 he began his three-part guide to the Peak District for Cicerone Press, and in 1987, with Chris Wright, wrote a guide to walking around the former county of Westmorland. This book sowed the seeds of a dream, to be fulfilled some 14 years later, when he and his wife moved to Cumbria. Here he developed a passion for the finest of all walking landscapes, held within and around this marvellous county. Mark has written a Cicerone guide to Great Mountain Days in the Lake District and is working on a series of eight Fellranger guides covering the region.
Now living in what was once the Barony of Gilsland, Mark is also close to Hadrian's Wall, enabling him to renew a fascination first kindled when he prepared a guide to walking the Wall in 1993. He has now also published a guide to the Wall for Cicerone.
Website: http://www.markrichards.info
Titles by Mark Richards
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In this collection of photographs of Hadrian's Wall, Roger Clegg has captured contrasting moods and landscapes – blazing skies at dawn and dusk, mist lifting from the crags and new-fallen snow banked against the familiar stonework. As the images progress along the Wall, Mark Richards sketches its context from the Roman era to the modern age.
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Lakeland Fellranger walking guide by Mark Richards covering 29 summits in the North-Western Fells of the English Lake District, with a wide range of ascents between Borrowdale in the east and Buttermere in the west, and as far south as Honister Pass. All illustrated with the author's topos and panoramas and Harvey map extracts.
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Lakeland Fellranger walking guide by Mark Richards covering 34 summits in the Western Fells of the Lake District, with a wide range of ascents, old and new, between the rivers Irt (Ennerdale) to the west and Cocker (Crummockwater / Buttermere) to the east. With clear Harvey map extracts and the author's original topos and panoramas.
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Lakeland Fellranger guidebook by Mark Richards covering 22 summits in the Mid-Western Fells of the Lake District. Includes a variety of the best walking routes, old and new, in the triangle between Great Langdale, Borrowdale and Wasdale, all presented with the author’s inimitable passion and flair.
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Lakeland Fellranger guidebook by Mark Richards covering 23 summits in the Southern Fells of the Lake District. Includes a variety of the best walking routes, old and new, between Wrynose and Hardknott passes and Black Combe in the south of the Lake District and Muncaster in the west.
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Lakeland Fellranger guidebook by Mark Richards covering 35 summits in the Near Eastern Fells of the Lake District. Includes a variety of the best walking routes, old and new, in the mighty range of hills that sit between Ambleside, Ullswater and Grasmere.
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Lakeland Fellranger guidebook by Mark Richards covering 28 summits in the Central Fells of the Lake District. Includes a variety of the best walking routes, old and new, in the high ground of the Lakes between Great Langdale and Keswick, all presented with the author’s inimitable passion and flair.
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Mark Richards' guide to walking the southern dales of the White Peak area of the Peak District, England UK, between Ashbourne, Matlock, Buxton and Leek. 30 easy circular routes cross the high plateau and follow the Dove, Manifold and Hamps rivers through the dales in the UK's first National Park.
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Mark Richards' guide to walks in northern dales of the White Peak area of the Peak District National Park, England, UK, between Edale, Matlock and Buxton. 35 circular walks cross the gritstone uplands and moors and explore the Wye and its tributary dales through the UK's first National Park. One of two Cicerone guides to the White Peak.
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A guidebook to fifty memorable walks on the high fells of the English Lake District. Graded circular routes equally suitable for the moderately adventurous walker looking for undiscovered areas and for the less experienced walker starting out on the fells.
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A handy guidebook for anyone planning to walk Hadrians Wall Path. This 84-mile National Trail route typically takes a week to walk, and is described in both directions. A World Heritage Site, Hadrian's Wall runs as close as possible to the course of the wall, on its route between Bowness-on-Solway and Wallsend in Newcastle.
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The guidebook has 30 walking routes in the Peak District National Park up to 10 miles long. The southern part of Mark Richards' Peak District “trilogy” covers the area south of Youlgreave and Bakewell. Mark Richards’ style owes much to Wainwright, but here he proves equal to the master.
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Guidebook of 28 walks ranging from half a mile to 10 miles in the Peak District National Park south of the Mam Tor Ridge and north of Youlgreave. The central part of Mark Richards' “trilogy” on the Peak District covers the area south of Edale. Mainly day walks, in Mark’s wonderful pictorial style.
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Guidebook of high peak walks in the northern Peak District, England, UK. The northern part of Mark Richards' Peak District trilogy this volume covers the area north of Edale. 22 day-long circular walks and one linear challenge walk. Based around Black Hill, Bleaklow, the Eastern Edges, Kinder Scout and the western moorlands.
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