Wild Camping in a Lake District Forest

A short video from a recent weekend away in the Lake District, wild camping and generally just enjoying the great outdoors. Filmed on a Panasonic SD700 Camcorder. Edited using Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 10 Music Credit - Kevin MacLeod, Achaidh Cheide on incompetech.com
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The Cumbria TV Guide To Ullswater Part 1

The Cumbria TV inside guide to the region of Ullswater in the Lake District, featuring Pooley Bridge, Aira Force waterfalls and a host of golden daffodils as found by William Wordsworth.
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Architecture In The Lake District

However attractive the landscape of the Lake District, it is almost as difficult to picture the scene without buildings as without sheep. Whether as isolated points of punctuation on the hillsides or as the domesticated base from which the wild fells rise, the buildings contribute a visual component to the landscape as well as indicating stages in its evolution. Those humble utilitarian farmhouses and farm buildings which nowadays are called works of vernacular architecture constitute essential evidence in the development of landscape history.
In studies of vernacular buildings generally it has been found convenient to separate farm buildings from the domestic buildings of the farmstead. The houses then may be divided into the categories of Large House, Small House and Cottage according to the assumed social status of the families for whom they were designed. The matter of social status was important not least because of the sheer survival of buildings to populate the landscape. Although the Lake District has been inhabited for so long, the houses of the inhabitants which remain above ground, occupied or ruined, represent only the latest centuries of occupation or the latest generations of inhabitants.

It seems likely that the longvanished dwellings or farm buildings were made of material too impermanent to survive or of material too valuable not to be used over and over again. Impermanent materials include turf, peat and clay and the seventeenthcentury and eighteenthcentury claywalled buildings which do survive on the Solway Plain, just north of the Lake District, suggest that skill in the use of such an abundant material as clay could well have been more widespread. Impermanent materials also include thatch whether of poor oat straw or of heather. Reusable materials include the stout timber which made up structural frames clad in such materials as clay or turf and also the stone, whether gathered from the fields or roughly quarried near each building site. The redundant halvings and pegholes in timber indicate its reuse; walling stone may be used several times without giving evidence of reuse.

However, the early vernacular buildings which do survive appear fully developed in plan and cross-section and from each early plan type a full sequence can be seen to have developed. The evidence suggests that in the Lake District, as elsewhere in the country, a Great Rebuilding occurred whereby householders felt sufficiently prosperous and sufficiently selfconfident to replace their inadequate dwellings with others stout enough to survive to the present day. As one might expect, those of higher status in a given locality felt able to participate in a Great Rebuilding or enjoy a housing revolution first, while those at the bottom of the local social ladder escaped such benefits until much later. Equally, one finds that at all social levels any Great Rebuilding took place much later in this poor and remote region than it did in more favoured counties such as Kent or Sussex or even Devon or Somerset.

Hike up Scafell Pike Part One

daveswildcamping.com Visit and follower my blog Hike up Scafell Pike September 09 then Wildcamp on way back part two.

Waking ayoung person up in the morning during a youth group wilderness camp in the lake district www.adventure21.co.uk
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AMBLESIDE CAMPING TRIP 2006 LADS@COBB

OUR LITTLE TRIP TO AMBLESIDE IN THE LAKE DISTRICT. IT RAINED ALL THE TIME WE WERE THERE SO WE WENT N GOT WASTED.

The Truth About Wild Camping In the UK Lake District

Information about wild camping in the UK, the Lake district Mountains. High above the walna scar road near Coniston Old man and Dow Crag.
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Train to Penrith. Cycle to Pooley Bridge on "B" roads. Get Ullswater ferry to Patterdale. The main "A" road is very narrow and on one side of the lake only. We took our bikes & gear on the bridlepath which was scenic but too rough to recommend. We camped at Side farm, very rural and on the lake. We stayed for three whole weeks because the walks in the mountains/hills were so spectacular. There are plenty of cycle friendly trails there when you don't have your gear with you. This trip was all about looking at dramatic skies... Beware! The weather changes every few minutes so you have to carry your jumper and raingear at all times.
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PrivateCampingTimeLapse_withAudio.wmv

Shows the set-up and first night of Joey's Private Camping Birthday Weekend - must watch till the end to see a stunning night shot. The Private Camping Company creates exclusive camping experiences for small groups and family groups in the Lake District UK - www.privatecamping.co.uk Time-lapse photography is by Lewis Williams Photography - www.ljcwilliams.co.uk ... enjoy
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This is one from the archives. Back in 1991 I ran Highcliffe Scout troop. We had a Summer Camp in the Lake District - for which we won a Cumbria Camping Award. This is the video of that camp taken in a time when Video Cameras were not that common. I was transferring old VHS tapes to DVD and decided to upload this as being of wider interest -- at least to those concerned ! Split into 2 as the full video is 18 mins. All of the Scouts here will now be in their late 20's or early 30's. Did Scouting have much benefit to them ? Well those few I know about from this video (you can guess who did what) are : Editting Ride BMX Magazine, DJ'ing in Birmingham, Running a Carphone Warehouse store, teaching at Harrow school, unemployed, teaching games, working in a Nuclear Power station, Ambulance Paramedic and RAF pilot. At least one served time. Who is here ? Steve Bancroft, Robert Orchard, Leigh Mitchelmore, Andrew Howard, Mark Mitchelmore, Nick Bartlett, Matt Tibbert, Daniel Hall, Tony Bancroft, Jon Lynch, William Buscall, Toby Cooper, Sam Dykes, Luke Stride, Martyn Jones, David Foskett, Steve Carter, Simon Trimnell, Paul White, Steve Mitchell, Greg Yonwin and Tim Martin. Leaders -- Robin Abbott, Pete Kingsley, Tony Cumes (the legendary), Nick Sheppard and Dave MacDonald-some of the time. Apologies for the editting - this is pretty much cutting edge for the time when PC Genlocks cost hundreds of pounds and pointing the camera at a photographs to get a still frame was the norm. This ...