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David Clarke
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Loved the photo of cows on Petersham Meadows. My family (Clarke) were the "Clarke" in "Hornby & Clarke" who grazed their cows there. Can I give my grandchildren a hard copy of this photo as part of a family history album I am preparing?
8 May 2013 - Seaford, East Sussex
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Rachel
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Greetings from New Zealand! I stumbled across your site searching for images of coppiced woodlands, of which I found a most beautiful example on your site
File name: 2009-03-15-133039.jpg
on this page: http://www.luphen.org.uk/public/2009/haydown_hill.htm
Caption: "Then it was time to ascend again, onto Conholt Hill through this coppiced woodland")
I am a member of the NZ Tree Crops Association, a venerable volunteer organisation in NZ with diverse membership. An Englishman, an expert in coppiced woodlands, gave an excellent presentation at our recent conference. I'm writing it up for our members' journal; may I have permission to use the photo identified above to illustrate it? Coppicing is not common here and we certainly don't have examples of woodlands that have been continuously coppiced for hundreds of years. There does seem to be growing interest in it though, particularly for providing stock food. I await your advice. Many thanks
Rachel
7 May 2013 - Whanganui, New Zealand
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Stephen
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This guestbook had been very quiet for a while - I think I've fixed the problem. If you can see this message, then it is working again properly.
25 April 2013 - Suffolk
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Tom
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Love the pics from Haverthwaite Railway...just did it a few weeks ago. 
14 September 2012 - United Kingdom
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Janet
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Loved your moving tribute to Henry what a wonderful boy he was. Very sad they have to leave so soon. Will be back often to enjoy all your other great pages.....what a treat. Thank you
11 September 2012 - Cumbria
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Matthew
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Great website!
I'm a keen ultra runner and I have run a number of the routes that you have walked.
I was keen to try running the Stour Valley Path, but it looks like it could be tricky to follow. I've been searching the Internet to try and find any gpx files for the path, but I'm not having any luck so far.
Did you use a gps for the route, or simply follow OS maps? If the former, where did you obtain the gpx file for the route?
Keep up the great work! Cheers
6 September 2012 - London
Webmaster comments
From what I can recall there wasn't too much "which way now?" but the waymarking isn't excellent by any means.
I plotted my own routes on digital maps but partly as a result there is now a complete mapping on openstreetmap.org, which gives you a number of options:
* find the route on the map at http://hiking.lonvia.de/en/ click on “Routes” in the bottom-right and select the Stour Valley Path from where you can download the GPX file
* or wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Long_Distance_Paths lists all those in the UK which have been mapped or partially mapped, from where you can click on the GPX link against each path (and also link to maps showing each path)
* or if my own GPX tracks plotted on the ground are of any value they are available for each of my walks by the date on which they were walked, such as for the final walk on the Stour Valley Path www.luphen.org.uk/walks/routes/20110821.xml – just rename the .xml file to .gpx [Most later walks are already named as .gpx files already.]
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Big Jack
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Loved your pictures of the Ridgeway. They remind me of my walk. And the Lakes picture too remind me of my childhood escapes.
22 August 2012 - South Oxon
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Don Winn
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Happened onto your site looking for pictures of tower bridge, but you French Canal Tour photos have caused us to amend our "must do" list, the wife is demanding it! Outstanding ! 
31 July 2012 - Broken Arrow, OK, USA
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barry olsen
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thank-you for the wonderful canals tour... one day; one day!
19 July 2012 - New Zealand
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Merry
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Just been looking through the super photos of our holiday on the K & A canal. Thanks for sharing them. Lots of happy memories, despite the weather!
16 July 2012 - Evesham
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max
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I just came across your photos of the Stour walk. My grandfather used to live in Crowe Hall and I spent all my Christmas and Easter holidays there. I brought back such wonderful and fond memories. Thanks for sharing them!!! Tata. Max
5 July 2012 - Now in Myanamr
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lucy yate
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hello,
I am curating an exhibition on the waterways surrounding the olympic park for the canal museum London. I think some of your photos would be perfect and was hoping you would allow them to be used. (with full credit of course)
Thank you
Lucy
30 June 2012 - london
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sy
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Just stumbled across your website, your photo's are beautiful! Thanks for sharing them
sy
sysprints.blogspot.com
23 June 2012 - London
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Kate
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Hello Stephen & Lucy - Your website is wonderful, full of such interesting detail and exceptional photos. Absolute in awe of Cumbria. Well done Stephen, covering all of West Wainright's Walks. We hope we'll make the Cumbrian Hills. Me and partner Pete began short walks March 2012, moved on to rambling and now we love challenging trails and hill walking. It is now June 2012 and we're enjoying every minute. Our recent achievement was Brown Clee Hill. We are looking forward to walking many more hills. Thank you for sharing your photos of your walks, the details and George of course. Take care and we shall keep watching your website for updates.
17 June 2012 - Shropshire UK
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Kelly
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Just found your site while searching for suitable trail runs for my marathon training - will follow your Hertingfordbury loop tomorrow :) thanks x
20 May 2012 - Ware
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Fenella Rook
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Hi there: I have been looking at your descriptions of the South West Coast Path. I and my 2 cousins walked the first three stages from Minehead - Porlock Weir - Lynmouth - Combe Martin over the Easter weekend 2012. I'm originally from CM and I love that whole coastline. We found it quite rugged and we even cheated a little bit (hangs head in shame) by getting the B&B man to take us from Lynmouth to just past Hunters Inn so we could come down off the Hangmans into CM and still have lots of time to look around (and for me to meet up with old friends who I had not seen for many years). We're planning to do the next bit, CM - Woolacombe and maybe to barnstaple in a couple of years. Loved looking at your pictures of the walk, happy memories! I'm blogging my walk at www.ex-shammickite.blogspot.com. I hope you carried a stone all the way up Big Hangman and made a wish as you added it to the cairn. I did!
27 April 2012 - Canada
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Chris Booth
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Hi guys, I just thought I'd let you know that your site was one of the ones that I used to research and get me of the sofa and exploring London on foot, starting with the LOOP. I've enjoyed it so much that I started my own blog about it (http://www.walkaroundlondon.com) because I feel that unguided walking in London, especially in the outer boroughs, is really neglected and I want to share these lovely strolls! I will be including your URL in my list of 'approved of' blogs in the very near future, hope that's ok? Keep up the good work!
20 April 2012 - London
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Geoff Doggett
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Lovely images and narrative for the Angles Way walks. Just started up a River Waveney Trust (see www.riverwaveneytrust.org ) so have put in a link to your site and hope that's OK! Join us via the home page if you want...
6 April 2012 - Harleston, Norfolk
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Tony Stanger
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Please grant permission for the use of your file 2005-08-13-125434.jpg Swanage Railway for use in the Dorset Disabled Yearbook 2012. © line will be used. Thanks in advance
Tony
23 March 2012 - Suffolk
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Sausage King
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Would be very interested to know when you do the next leg of Angles way. We've done Diss to beyond Bungay but ended up at Geldeston Locks awaiting collection!
3 March 2012 - South Norfolk
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Peter Byers
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Stunning WebSite.
Have a vanity project writing my autobiography. Using Lulu.com high quality expensive print on demand.
Might sell three copies if I am lucky!!!
(I make around 25 pence a copy)
Would llike to use your picture of Uxbridge Lock please.
Credit will be given.
17 February 2012 - Northolt
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Martin Woods
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Like the image of Oxhey Wood. Any chance of using it in a Three Rivers District Council leaflet? Happy to credit.
31 January 2012 - Hitchin
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Danny Rowell
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Hiya
Was just hunting google for photos on the new river, right where i live. Thought i would comment as the photos and locations are absolutely beautiful.
Best regards
Danny
26 January 2012 - Enfield, London
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Michael Seear
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Hi, my name is Mike Seear - I'm on the staff of children's hospital in Vancouver, Canada. I'm writing to ask your permission to use your picture of Limehouse basin in a textbook. I'm currently rewriting the second edition of a book on international health. As you know Limehouse has gone from terrible poverty 150 years ago to a highly prized address. It helps make the point that all countries have been through poverty at some stage in their development. Thanks very much,
Mike Seear
6 January 2012 - Vancouver, Canada
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Ireen and David Saunders
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Pictures look amazing as always. Would be great to catch up with you guys soon. Its been too long.
2 January 2012 - England
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Martin
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Searching the web for boating holidays in France and came across your site.
Some fantastic information.
The rest of the site also give some great ideas!
Thanks for sharing your memories with the world!
17 December 2011 - Bingley, West Yorks, UK
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Bob Wolf
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Your site is one of the very best UK picture sites.
Thanks,
3 December 2011 - Athens, Georgia US
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Peter Corrigan
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Dear Stephen and Lucy. I'm putting a flyer together for Stoke Bruerne and was hoping that i could use some of your images in the flyer. I will obviously credit your name with the photo's if used with your permission. If you could email me at peter@ppnorthampton.com with confirmation that this is ok that would be great. Many thanks. Peter Corrigan
2 December 2011 - Milton Keynes
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Steve Georgiou
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Are you the Stephen Dawson that once lived in 30 Somerfield Road. If you are what flat were you in and was it self-contained?
30 November 2011 - London
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David
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Hi
Love your website, just wondering is it possible to get a copy of your gpx files of the North Downs?
Thanks
David
19 October 2011 - London
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Amanda Findley
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I am writing about a walk along the Stour Valley Path for a local community magazine and wondered if it might be possible to use one or two of your very lovely photos to illustrate this. Thank you very much for a lovely website.
13 September 2011 - United Kingdom
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Craig & Diane Hardy
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 Stephen & Lucy, Your pictures are simplu wonderful! We always love to see your latest adventures. Your pics from the recent Norway voyage are better than what we'd find in National Geographic. You actually "take us there" through these wonderful shots. I could almost imagine a Viking ship suddenly appearing though the fog!
6 September 2011 - United States
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Jeff Ford
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just a short visit after a long time away. Love the pictures of your country.
5 September 2011 - Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
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John
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Loved the pix of Wildcat island. We were there a couple of years ago and didn't land as we were in a hired power boat and worried about going aground etc. Thanx for the insight. Life long admirer of Ransome and would be pirate, though I guess I'm not tough enough to crew Amazon!
10 August 2011 - Oxford UK
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claire leavy
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Lovely pictures really made me smile
9 August 2011 - stafford uk
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Eddie and Denise Esserman
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We just missed you on the canal by two weeks! Our pictures are virtually the same. What boat has a water gauge? Our 8th, and we've never had a gauge of any sort! Cheers.
17 July 2011 - St. Simons island, Ga USA
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Peter Willis
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Hi Stephen and Lucy I'm hunting for a good photo of the Secret Harbour on Wild Cat Island for a magazine article, ad came across yours of April 2007 - the dinghy in the harbour with a 'not very tidy harbour stow'. Is it possible you can send me a hi-res version? (payment if used!) Thanks Peter
16 June 2011 - Farnham, Surrey, UK
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Mike Trier, Lea Valley Federation
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Please may I use your photo of Wathamstow Marshes from your Lea Valley Walk, 11 May 2008 for an e-newsletter to our email list and for the same newsletter on our website? It gives a view of unbroken countryside on the east of the River Lea, which we are campaigning to protect from a proposed high-rise resdiential development at Essex Wharf. We would also like to print three copies for members without email/internet.
Wonderful photos!
29 May 2011 - London
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Jo Atkins
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Is there any chance we could use your image of Quercus Castaneifolia which I think you took at Kew Gardens. We would like to use in a leaflet about Sponsoring a new tree avenue at Barrington Court in Somerset. The avenue will be replanted with Quercus Castaneifolia
27 May 2011 - UK
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Michael
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Hi, Just to say a big thank you for the pictures the other day ;)
19 April 2011
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Michael Lee
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Hi, I have never met either of you before and have an unusual request. I would like to pinch one of your pictures for a contract submission I am preparing for richmondshire Council. It is specifically the one that welcome's you to richmondshire, a lovely picture. I need this as my main page focus, only thin is I need a quick reponse if you check these regularly.
Kind Regards
Michael
17 April 2011 - Newcastle
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Winn Dawson
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Happy birthday George. Hope you all have a good holiday.
13 April 2011 - Hollesley
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Bob Wolf
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Love all the dogs-ya'll look "OK" too.
15 March 2011 - Athens , Georgia USA
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Simon Gibbons
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Sorry, should have said : excellent web-site!
24 February 2011 - Watford
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Simon Gibbons
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I'm London-LOOPing at the moment, and looking for future walks in the London area. The New River walk appeals as an easy alternative, but I'm struggling to find route information. Do you have any material you can share?
24 February 2011 - Watford
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Mr.James Kinnear
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Hello Lucy & Stephen could I please use some of your lovely canal pictures to include in a talk to my local pensioners group. best wishes James
23 February 2011 - Maidford,England
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Jack
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Hi, I was hoping I could use your panoramic photo from the top of the Wrekin (2004-05-07-panTheWrekin) for a banner photo on the top of my (non-commercial) blog. I'm from Shropshire originally, so I'm very taken with the way you captured the land falling away under the clouds!)
Obviously, I'd give a photo credit & a link back to this site, so would that be OK?
Thanks,
Jack.
22 February 2011 - Oxford
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Jennie Fundell
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I would love to use your image of the tree family in Gatton Park? We are producing a brochure for a New Homes Developer and this image would look great.
27 January 2011 - UK
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Jane Early
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I love your wintery photos of the Lakes Stephen. Making me feel all Christmassy in the sunshine
23 December 2010 - Sydney, NSW
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Chris Donald
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Hi I would like to use an image of the Thames which might appear in Womens Running (a womens running magazine :-)
24 November 2010
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