21 May 2015, The Tablet

Rambler’s guide


 
More usually heard on the music channels, or gamely compering Top of the Pops 2, Mark Radcliffe’s genial Northern tones were perfectly suited to this three-part celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening up of the Pennine Way to the public. Episode one had taken our intrepid hostelry-visitor from Edale in Derbyshire to Brontë Country. Episode two (14 May) found him at Malham Cove in Yorkshire, commemorating the “noble vision” of Tom Stephenson – the route’s founding father – before heading off in the direction of Hadrian’s Wall.Like some of the itinerants met along the way, much of what ensued had a tendency to ramble. A tour of the Wensleydale Creamery, a stop-off in the village of Kell, where the Pennine Way meets up with the co
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