England
I have travelled extensively throughout England, and written books and features about all the countries notably walking guides to the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors, Oxfordshire, the Chilterns, Peak District and the Pennines.
Beyond my home county of Lancashire, my specialist area is the Lake District about which I have written ‘The Lake Mountains’ (2 volumes), the ‘Official Guide to the Lake District National Park’, the ‘Towns and Villages of Cumbria’, and various smaller walking guides, some through my own publishing imprint Questa Publishing Limited (www.questapublishing.co.uk). For some years I was also a voluntary warden with the Lake District National Park.
I also have a Master of Arts Degree (with Distinction) in Lake District Studies from the Centre for North-West Regional Studies at Lancaster University, when I specialised in the history of the guides to Morecambe Bay Sands. I am currently researching for a PhD in Historical Geography at Lancaster University into the development of tourist accommodation in the Lake District 1770-1914.
Scotland
Although I have walked and travelled extensively around Scotland my specialist areas are Southern Scotland and the islands. In particular, as a guidebook writer I focus on the islands of Skye and Mull, and have produced (with photographer Jon Sparks) ‘The Magic of the Scottish Islands’. In the 1990s, I produced a walker's guide to the Isle of Skye, and this was followed up in 2011, with a similar guide to the Isle of Mull
I have been fortunate to visit most of the inhabited islands, along with the remote St Kilda, and have a great fondness for Skye and the Western Isles, which I have been visiting for over forty years.
Wales
My first two books were about Wales: ‘The Summits of Snowdonia’ and ‘The Mountains of Wales’; these two books were revived, in a sense, with the publication of ‘Great Mountain Days in Snowdonia’ (2010).
For a time I lived and worked in North Wales, where I was Deputy Town Clerk with Bangor Borough Council, and during this time and for some years afterwards I was a Voluntary Warden with Snowdonia National Park. My son and grandson still live on Anglesey, which I visit frequently, naturally.
Isle of Man
I have been visiting the Isle of Man since 1947, when as a family we would spend our holidays there, travelling out on the passenger ships from Liverpool. Later I returned as a journalist, and would visit regularly over the years culminating in a walker’s guide to the island, and a position as the Director of the Isle of Man Walking Festival, which I pioneered.
AND ANOTHER THING...
...although I live in England, I seem to write more about Scotland than anywhere else in the UK. Even so, I get around all the UK during the course of the year, and, quite frankly, can't get enough of it. This is a beautiful country....and don't forget the Isle of Man, which actually isn't part of the UK.
Brimham Rocks, North Yorkshire
The Western Isles, from Ruadh Hunish, Skye
Cwm Idwal, Snowdonia
Maughold, Isle of Man
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