■ Distance: 7¾ miles/12.5km ■ Time: 4¼ hours ■ Grade: Challenging

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The Lake District, nestled in the north-west corner of England in Cumbria, is the country’s most poetic landscape. From Wordsworth to Beatrix Potter, the Lake District has always drawn writers, artist

Head for Lakeland ’s Northern Fells to bag a couple of easy tops when winter puts more rugged peaks beyond reach.

Take a short but wild wander over Bleaklow’s bleak but high moorland to discover one of the most famous and moving air crash sites in the UK mountains, surrounded by an ocean of rock-studded peatland.

Jim Perrin pens a paean to a famous place of threshold for climbers, equally beloved of coastal walkers: the cliffs of Gogarth and Holyhead