Alfred Wainwright will forever be associated with hillwalking in the Lake District. His masterpieces, the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have become woven into the fabric of Britain's most popular national park. So strong is the influence of his guides that 214 hills and mountains in the Lakes are known as Wainwrights and thousands of people ascend the peaks to tick them off.

However, Wainwright was born and grew up in Blackburn, living here for the first 34 years of his life, before moving to Kendal in 1941. The Wainwright Society, whose aim is to keep his fellwalking traditions alive, unveiled this memorial close to his home town in 2013.

It's fitting that the memorial is a plinth of gritstone — this is the Pennines after all. A stone relief carving of Wainwright, pipe in hand, sits in the centre. In true AW fashion, a plaque indicates hills and mountains near and far. The South Lakeland fells are even visible in the far distance.

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Location: Pleasington, Blackburn with Darwen, North West England, England, United Kingdom

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