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Print & frame my art at Imagekind... Andy's Pics North American Web Site  Andy's Pics North American Website on ImageKind.com. A subset of the UK pictures for sale in US$ - picture framing is also available via this site.

Wainwright Country - web site for the Granada TV series. Provides series information and allows you to watch past episodes online.

Lakeland Webcams Page - Webcams covering Pavey Ark, Pillar/Mosedale, Wasdale, Miterdale, Great Gable, Haystacks/High Crag and The Old Man of Coniston.

Lake District National Park - The website of the LDNPA (Lake District National Park Authority). It has information on the National Park, web cams, news, events, the LDNPA itself and LDNPA policies. This site also has a link to the "Weatherline" weather service.


Mountain Weather Information Service - Three day mountain weather forcast for The Lake District (includes the whole of Cumbria and the western Pennines north from Ingleborough) in PDF format.

Landscape Photography Tips on TimesOnLine - Three of the UK's leading landscape photographers give their advice on taking landscape photographs.

General
Photography Tips on BBC Cumbria Web Site - A beginner's guide to taking photographs including composition and some basic technical tips.

Photoworkshop.com - An interactive, online digital photography community with various learning resources.

Photography On The Net - Various digital photograpny resources including a forum for Canon camera owners and links to freeware.

Simon Calder's Lake District Video - 12-ish minute long video available as a download via The Independent newspaper's web site. Travel writer Simon Calder takes you through some of the National Park's tourist  highlights.

The Complete Guide To: Cumbria - an article from
The Independent newspaper with a high level guide to Cumbria plus suggestions for things to do, places to stay and places to eat.

Wikipedia.org - Lake District - General background information on the Lake District on Wikipedia.org. Includes general geography, climate, wildlife, industry & agriculture, development of tourism, literature and nomenclature.

Wikimapia.org - Hybrid map-aerial photograph of Cumbria with places of interest marked. The Lake District National Park is, largely, the area between the Irish Sea and to the west of the M6 (for now).

Wikitravel.org - Lake District National Park Travel Guide - an overview of the main towns, sights, travel and accommodation.

Wikipedia.org - Alfred Wainwright Biography

BBC H2G2 - Alfred Wainwright Biography

Mountain Biking in the Grizedale Forest
- The Grizedale Forest is a Forestry Commission site with five purpose built, waymarked mountain bike trails plus the The North Face Trail, a ten mile track consisting of nine sections of singletrack trail on the west side of the forest. There are also eight waymarked walking paths.

National Trust Web Site - Cumbria Section

Fix The Fells - A charity repairing fell-side footpaths.

Ulverston.Net - a web site promoting Ulverston.

Cumbria.Com - a web portal with links to things to do in Cumbria, places at which to stay and eat.








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