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Pete Collins

Hi Stephen,

I've been enjoying looking at your web site again, it's very interesting. I smiled when I saw that you'd felt compelled to fill in the hole in the middle of the Hertfordshire Chain Walk at Watton-at Stone - I did the same! I hope you'll find time to do more of my Chiltern Chain Walk sometime.

Regards,

Pete

8 January 2009 - Bedfordshire, England

Bruno Didier

Dear Stephen,
I would like to use one of your pictures (Bredon Hill) in our non-profit organization magazine entitled "Insectes" (it is French). May I contact you with an email address for more explanations if needed ?
Thank you for your help !
Bruno

31 December 2008 - France

Allan Davies

As a lover of walking and photography I think that your website is wonderful. Your passion for the walsk and locations shines through. Keep up the good work.

30 December 2008 - Cheshire

George Richardson

Thank you for a colourful picture of England and your dogs! I live in Thailand and love it here but find your insights nostalgic and warming.
Happy New Year from www.angelsguesthouse.com

30 December 2008 - Thailand

Kevin Morelle

Dear Madam, Dear Sir,

I'm research assistant at the University of Namur (Belgium), management department, and in the framework of a Belgium free publication on ponds, we would like to know if we could use pictures coming from your website to illustrate "dew ponds"?
In case of you would agree, what should mention as source (authors)?
Looking forwards to hearing from you,
Faithfully yours,

Kevin Morelle

16 December 2008 - Belgium

Varja

hello!

I loved looking at your wonderful pictures and your gorgeous spaniels. I have now 1 CKCS and I am thinking of geting an american cocker. :)
My regards and best wishes for the future,
Varja

4 December 2008 - Slovenia/Maribor

Mary Linne

I LOVED your pix and descriptions of the Thames Path. Fascinating!!! The more pictures, the better!

18 November 2008 - Chicago, Illinois

Craig & Diane

Thank you both for the wonderful adventures & stories! Stephen, NEVER worry about placing too many pictures in, as we really benefit from seeing the wonderful places we simply do not have time to visit on our trips. We'll have to use your stories as a guide for "must see, must do" when we return! We also thank both of you for allowing little Winston to come to America with us...he is such a joy!

11 November 2008 - Louisiana, USA

Casper

Hi there - I very much enjoyed reading your Kingston to Kew Bridge walk as I live in the area. However some of your captions are wrong! You see the captions should state "Richmond" instead of "Kingston" for pictures 11 (Walking alongside Petersham Meadows, the houses of RICHMOND) to 14 (A train for WATERLOO crosses RICHMOND railway bridge).

Sorry to be persnickety! But I thought you would want to know!

All the very best, Casper

9 November 2008 - Richmond

Webmaster comments Thanks. I was sure I'd already fixed that page when the error was previously pointed out. But it's definitely right now!

Jeffrey French

Your photos are fantastic and the captions very informative. I'm about to make a canalboat trip from Bunbury to Trevor and back in a few weeks and have some specific questions regarding your trip. Could you contact me?

Thanks!

23 October 2008 - Marin County, CA

Webmaster comments I've replied to Jeffrey and offered some comments on his planned trip from Bunbury to Trevor.

Gaston Valin

I love your pictures is a pleasure to see people enjoying the world .Please keep taking a lot of Pictures

13 October 2008 - BlackRock ,CT usa

Björn

Awesome photography. Thank you so much.
What camera do you use?

8 October 2008 - Islington, London

Tarquinetta

Lovely website - nice to find people who get out and about rather than being couch potatoes. I bet you read Enid Blyton when you were children?

You should try visiting East Anglia - it has several enthusiasts railways, waterways, long distance paths.

28 September 2008

Dan Webster

Such a pleasure to stumble upon your site! I spent 6 months traveling around the British Isles 25 years ago, and your travels bring back so many fond memories! I'm soooo envious. You cover so much ground! I'm impressed with how you seem to have your priorities in order with regards to R & R ! My happy place is anywhere in North Yorkshire or the Lakes. Thank you so much.

18 September 2008 - British Columbia Canada

Sheila

Used to live in Bush HIll Park and spent many happy childhood hours at Enfield Town Park. I've been in Australia now over 40 years but got very choked up on seeing those pics on your site. Thank you for letting me see my old haunts again (and in a lot of cases they haven't changed

6 September 2008 - Hamilton Island QLD Australia

Colin

Hi
Great site - excellent photos and nice dogs!
In one of your captions, you say that there are 55 Lakeland Marilyns - I'm doing them this year and reckon there are 52 - see www.barrlane.com and follow link. Interested to find the discrepancy. Cheers and happy walking!

25 August 2008 - Cumbria

Webmaster comments Thanks for your message.

My website was correct at the time of that caption, but since then there has
been another promotion, so there are now considered to be 56 Marilyns in
Region 34, which Alan Dawson called "The Lake District". I've updated the
website accordingly, so thanks for that.

I have the 56 summits in Region 34 "The Lake District" as follows, in height
order:

Arnside Knott 34D 159
Whitbarrow - Lord's Seat 34D 215
Muncaster Fell - Hooker Crag 34D 231
Swinside 34B 244
Watch Hill [Setmurthy Common] 34A 254
Claife Heights 34D 270
Hutton Roof Crags 34D 274
Holme Fell 34D 317
Gummer's How 34D 321
Kirkby Moor [Lowick High Common] 34D 334
Loughrigg Fell 34B 335
Top O'Selside 34D 335
Lambrigg Fell 34D 339
Dent [Long Barrow] 34B 352
High Rigg 34C 357
Hallin Fell 34C 388
Low Fell 34B 423
Binsey 34A 447
Lingmoor Fell 34B 469
Baystones [Wansfell] 34C 488
Grayrigg Forest 34C 494
Little Mell Fell 34C 505
Mellbreak 34B 512
Great Mell Fell 34C 537
Hard Knott 34B 549
Lord's Seat 34A 552
Blake Fell 34B 573
Whitfell 34D 573
Black Combe 34D 600
Illgill Head 34B 609
Harter Fell 34D 654
Place Fell 34C 657
Tarn Crag 34C 664
Seatallan 34B 692
Pike of Blisco 34B 705
Knott 34A 710
Seat Sandal 34C 736
Robinson 34B 737
Dale Head 34B 753
High Raise 34B 762
Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor] 34C 763
Red Screes 34C 776
Grisedale Pike 34B 791
Kirk Fell 34B 802
The Old Man of Coniston 34D 803
High Stile 34B 807
High Street 34C 828
St Sunday Crag 34C 841
Grasmoor 34B 852
Blencathra 34A 868
Fairfield 34C 873
Pillar 34B 892
Great Gable 34B 899
Skiddaw 34A 931
Helvellyn 34C 950
Scafell Pike 34B 978

But 6 of these are outside the Lake District National Park - namely Arnside
Knott, Dent (Long Barrow), Grayrigg Forest, Hutton Roof Crags, Lambrigg Fell
and Kirkby Moor. That takes the total down to 50 if one uses the LDNP as the
boundary. Personally I would consider that Dent, Grayrigg Forest, Kirkby
Moor and Lambrigg Fell are definitely within the Lake District even though
not within the National Park; Arnside Knott and Hutton Roof Crags are part
of the same geological formation as Lord's Seat so arguably have as much of
a claim to inclusion as does Lord's Seat.

But I note that you have included Dent (Long Barrow) and Kirkby Moor even
though they are outside the LDNP, which I think produces your 52, though I
haven't done a full cross-check.

I hope that's helpful rather than otherwise! Enjoy your walking!

Keith

Your photos are superb. What camera do you use, and what resolution are they?
We are doing parts of the various London walks you show on your website, which is really excellent.
Don't forget the river Arun/Wey walk!

19 August 2008 - Arundel.

Webmaster comments Thanks very much for your message.

The photos are mostly taken with fairly ordinary cameras - most recently a
Canon Powershot A720, some with a Canon Ixus 860 (which is nice and small
but I miss the controlability), before that a Canon A610 which drowned in a
lake; I did have a bigger Fuji which I liked to use but it was a pain to
carry around a big camera so I've settled for the results from one I can fit
in my pocket.

The A720 will take 8 megapixel pictures, but I generally have it set to 3
megapixels as I don't need huge pictures - the quality of the optics is much
more important to me than the number of pixels.

I hope you enjoy the London walks, and yes the Arun/Wey walk looks
interesting for a future project.

Mick Sparey

What a wonderful web site. Most enjoyable. Keep up the good work. I have saved it to my Favorites

6 August 2008 - London England

Webmaster comments Belated thanks for your message - I'm glad you have enjoyed the photos.

james emmans

just done some walking along the craine river and noticed your photo of the walk under the bridge was not on the official route. I took the same detour! The pathfinder map does have the london loop on it now.
thanks for great site.

2 August 2008 - UK

Antonio Madeddu

Wonderful photos and very complete descriptions. Very enjoyable. Could you try to complete geographic coordinates with Picasa and Google Earth? It's very simple: if you need a help I'll show you how to do.

2 August 2008 - Sardinia

Mark

Hope your foot is much better now. Mine is recovering well although not sure I would be up to a trip round the castle here! Never realised Dover Castle was so extensive. Looks v interesting.

27 June 2008 - Kenilworth, UK

Leslie

What a great website! It transports me from my office here in NY, NY. Thanks for the great pictures --

19 June 2008 - New York, NY, USA

Mary Linne

I'm still checking your great photos every week. Love your website and your very cute dogs!

3 June 2008 - Chicago, Illinois USA

Theresa

Hi,
Just had look at your photos and did enjoy looking through them. I am doing research on canals for a talk I am doing. I was looking for some pictures of locks and the falkirk wheel when I came across yours thank you for letting us have a look.
I visited family up in Fort William and was trying to remember what the locks were called, brought back some nice moreries of a lovely week. Theresa

16 May 2008 - midlands

Peter Jennings

Stumbled across your walk through South Oxhey, where I grew up. Really appreciated the heavy image base to the site. Flabbergasted that Pinnerwood House is still superb over he pond.

I regret that the estate dwellers have transformed Oxhey Woods into something less attractive than I remember from my exploration in the 1950's and 1960's, though the Water Authority started the rot by building a reservoir over the most superb pond I've ever encountered...

10 May 2008 - Wales

Mary Schoen

Wonderful photos. Especially the Lakes, my favourite place in the world.

29 April 2008 - Cotswolds

Emma Naqvi

Dear Stephen and Lucy.
Lovley Images. I am wondering if you mind that I will use one of your images for in a questionnare, that I am creating for a community consultation? the image is (http://www.luphen.org.uk/images/2006/2006-02/2006-02-05-131758.jpg)Please let me know by the end if the week or contact me if you have any queries.

15 April 2008 - London

Jim

Hi, love your web-site. I've just caught the walking bug myself and recently completed the New River walk and enjoyed comparing weather etc with your trip.
Keep up the good work as your photos are great to look at; especially on a Monday morning.

9 April 2008 - Hertford, England

Webmaster comments Hi. Thanks - glad you enjoyed the pictures.

Winn Dawson

Are Littleport and Tooting Bec in the same country!!

8 April 2008 - Suffolk

Webmaster comments It was a bit surprising that there was sunshine and no snow in Littleport and it was still snowing until late morning in Tooting Bec - they're not that far apart! It was pretty cold in Littleport, though.

Sarah

I came across your website while researching Patterdale and Place Fell and have had a lovely time browsing. I am disabled and although I can walk I can't get very far. I particularly want to go up mountains and your pictures are the next bext thing to actually being there, Thank you!

6 April 2008 - Surrey

Jill Cobb

Hi Stephen
I just complete the leg from Rainham to Purfleet and I found to my surprise, the route is now open from Coldharbour light along the riverbank as far as Purfleet. It is currently closed by the Tilda Rice factory though.

Loved your pictures and Henry

4 March 2008 - Dagenham Essex

Webmaster comments A shame if it is closed by the Tilda Rice factory - that bit along the Thames, while industrial, was interesting and probably more so than the bleaker inland route. I gather the final route further north through Rainham will be officially opened soon so once that happens I may return to re-do that section.

Jonathan Dawson

hello, i was doing some research on the history of england and English mountain ranges when i came across your pictures. i noticed that we had a similar last name. No relation i am sure. just thought it was funny and thought i would say hello. very nice pictures btw. i have never been to england and would like to visit some day. have a good day.

4 March 2008 - California, USA

Stephen Dawson

Hi - this is our new guestbook - the ability to add to the old one was lost when our webhost did an "upgrade", but this one should offer some anti-spam functionality so should be better.

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24 February 2008 - London, UK

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