Long Sleddale

This view is from two-thirds of the way up the valley, just near the door of St Mary’s Church. We were there on Father’s Day - my treat. The weather was to my way of thinking of the best kind. Bright sunlight and then brief cooling cloud. The depth of the greens is always so refreshing when it is lit by the sun. The ‘Sleddale’ of ‘Long Sleddale’ is meant to rhyme with meddle. Those that know told me, and they are descended from those who used to live in the dale. I have walked through the head of the valley whilst completing a circular route beginning and ending(!) in Kentmere. The valley is the one the home of Postman Pat is based on in the series.