The North Pennines

Wherever you go in this area, the North Pennines will deliver unexpected delights and landscapes that surprise you.

You will  find world class Roman remains, striking industrial and mining archaeology, unspoilt, lonely moors which are home to rare and beautiful flora and fauna, some of Britain’s  finest rivers and waterfalls and beautiful little towns and villages nestled among high fells.

Often overlooked by tourists, the North Pennines is properly celebrated here in a stunning collection of images by local photographer and author Helen Shaw. Hadrian’s Wall, wild moorlands, gushing springs, torrential waterfalls, forgotten villages and burial sites, black grouse, curlews and vivid gentians.

Often overlooked by tourists, the North Pennines is properly celebrated here in a stunning collection of images by local photographer and author Helen Shaw. Hadrian’s Wall, wild moorlands, gushing springs, torrential waterfalls, forgotten villages and burial sites, black grouse, curlews and vivid gentians.

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Illustrations:
145 Colour photographs

Pages:
192

Published:
Apr 25, 2024

ISBN:
9781913159696

About the Author:

Helen Shaw lives in the North Pennines on a remote hillside south of Garrigill, Cumbria.

Her photographs have featured in The Times, Manchester Evening News, This England,
Cumbria Life, Westmoreland Gazette, The Scots magazine, Northern Life, and countless
other magazines and newspapers all across northern England. Her photographic
books have earned her a strong following: The Forest of Bowland, Land’s End to John
O’Groats, The Pennines, String of Pearls (Lake District).The North Pennines is her fifth book of landscape photography and her first one focussing entirely on her home of the North Pennines.

A keen walker and lover of wild and lonely places, she is married to Bob Shelmerdine
who shares her passion for the outdoors.