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Stridingedge Videos Of the Lake District
| Stridingedge, based in Wasdale in the Lake District, is a company producing award-winning programmes for television, many of which are available for purchase on-line as PAL and NTSC videos or DVDs. A selection of their videos is described below. A full list of titles is available from their web site, accessed via their adjacent logo. |
Steam on the Settle and Carlisle |
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Steam on the Settle & Carlisle features a nostalgic footplate journey on board the
former LNER A4 locomotive Sir Nigel Gresley, recapturing the
golden age of steam on the Settle to Carlisle Railway,
the most scenic and spectacular railway line in England.
This film is coupled with Railway City, the fascinating story of the railways in Carlisle: from the construction of the Newcastle and Carlisle line in the 1830s and the opening of Citadel Station in 1847, on through the golden age to the decline of the post war period. |
Lakeland - The Video | |
| This official Lake District National Park video, shot over a full year, explains how this unique landscape has been created and how it is managed and protected today. It is a landscape shaped by man since Neolithic times. The Romans and Vikings left their mark. For centuries it was an industrial powerhouse. Quarries and mines and mills shared the Lakeland valleys with romantic poets and farming families. People continue to influence and shape the landscape and the special quality of this National Park. |
The Forests of the Lakes |
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Produced in conjunction with the Forestry Commission, the Forests of the Lakes tells the
story of one of this century's great Lakeland industries. Stunning wildlife footage of red
squirrels and deer in their wild habitats, the foresters who protect and enhance those habitats
and the craftsmen who work deep in the forest.
Cumbrian Forests described include Whinlatter, Grizedale, Dodd Wood, and Ennerdale. | |
Wainwright Videos |
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Wainwright's Lakeland Alfred Wainwright's love affair with Lakeland lasted all his adult life. In this video he revisits Orrest Head near Windermere, Kendal - his home for almost 50 years, Haweswater in the eastern fells, Borrowdale, and Haystacks - his favourite mountain and resting place for his ashes. | |
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Wainwright Memorial Walk In 1930 the master fellwalker devised a walking tour in the English Lake District. For almost 60 years it was one of Lakeland's best kept secrets, yet in its 102 miles and almost 35,000 feet of ascent, it would visit every major summit, valley and lake. Now there is a new video and book available to celebrate AW's long distance walk. A.W.'s fell-walking companion, Eric Robson, reconstructs the original 7 day walk into a more manageable, but still challenging, 11 stages. On the way he meets many of A.W.'s friends and admirers. Among them are his widow Betty, his biographer Hunter Davies and three generations of walkers. The video features magnificent aerial photography of Lakeland, as well as film taken in the mountains. | |
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The Essential Wainwright Includes Eric Robson recalling Britain's best loved fellwalker in WAINWRIGHT REMEMBERED - a tribute to A.W. made following his death in 1991. It traces his life from it's humble beginnings in Blackburn to the Lake District that became his adopted home and greatest inspiration. Also includes Wainwright's journey to the Cairngorms - previously unavailable on video. Starting alongside the beautiful shore of Loch an Eilein and meeting, along the way, the reindeer who have been introduced to this area, A.W. and Eric Robson journey eastwards through the heart of these remote and majestic mountains to the isolated Glen Derry. | |
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Coast to Coast Walk Wainwright enjoys some the highlights of the classic long distance route he devised in 1972 which traversed what he described as 'the grandest territory in the north of England'. The walk starts at St Bees, travelling through Cleator, Ennerdale, Rosthwaite, Patterdale, Shap, Kirkby Stephen, then out of Cumbria. The route then travels through the North York Moors National Park, heading towards Robin Hood's Bay on the East Coast. | |
Cyclist's Coast to Coast | ||
| Join award winning travel writer, photographer and broadcaster Simon Willis as he travels the challenging and increasingly popular 140 mile long C2C Cycle Route. Starting at Whitehaven, on the west coast of Cumbria, Simon travels through the scenic delights of the Lake District and on over the roof of England to the remote North Pennines before reaching the north east coast. Along the way he encounters a once thriving industrial past at Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre, visits award winning sculptures and meets cyclists taking up the challenge. There are lots of practical tips too for those planning to do the "Sea to Sea" themselves but you don't have to be a cyclist to enjoy this wonderful adventure. | |
Melvyn Bragg - Land of the Lakes |
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The Place, the People
Shows how the raw material created by 500 million years of heaving geological action has been fashioned by man into the unique landscape we know today, and how the people of the area have developed their own distinctive traditions. Magnificent monuments such as the Castlerigg stone circle stand as witness to a people's extraordinary ingenuity, while thriving local sports and dialect are testimony to a living tradition which enhances the quiet beauty of the place. | |
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Opening Up
Nature's power and beauty combine to create a special magic in the English Lake District. In this film Melvyn Bragg tells the story of its continuing impact on poets, travel writers and artists. From Wordsworth to Nicholson; Defoe to Gilpin and Turner to Heaton Cooper. Around 200 years ago the Lake District was a crucible for artistic thought and ideas prompting more and more visitors to savour the place for themselves. This opening up was given added impetus by the coming of the railways. Today the Lake District gets 18 million visitors a year. | |
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Land of The Borders
In The Battleground Melvyn Bragg traces the forces and events that shaped the lives of the people who lived in the Western Borders. From Roman occupation through the great battles between the English and Scottish armies and the savage feuds of the Border Reivers. In The Eastern Borders : The Third Kingdom Melvyn considers the influence of religion and the sea. Beginning with the founding of the monastery on Holy Island, the story of the spread of Christianity is set against a background of brutal conflicts. The sea meanwhile provided the people with a living and tales of disaster and heroism. | |
Edge of Empire | ||
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Hadrian's Wall is the most famous frontier of the greatest
empire in the history of the ancient world. It is also probably the most misunderstood
archaeological monument in Britain.
In a fascinating journey along the 73 miles of the Roman Wall World Heritage Site, Eric Robson
unravels some of the mysteries of 2500 years of history.
The story is not just in the stones that build the forts and milecastles along the way, but in the people. From Iron Age farmers and diplomats to Roman shopkeepers and civil servants: from Imperial soldiers bred in North Britain to dark ages protection racketeers and Border Reivers. The frontier that the Emperor Hadrian created is with us still. | |
To buy any of these DVDs or videos see the Striding Edge website.
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