Glorious Britain..

Paul Routledge on our green & pleasant land. A walk in the sun, the world spread at your feet & history all around.. Britain at its best

- Paul Routledge

ON a clear day, you can see forever. That’s what it feels like, a thousand feet up on Earl Crag in North Yorkshire.

It’s Glorious Britain at its best: a walk-in sunshine and fresh air, with the world spread about your feet and history all around.

From the top of Lund’s Tower, a castellated Victorian folly, you can look across the moors to Malham and, sometimes, all the way to the Lake District.

And there are no crowds, and it’s free. Even the car park.

So as Mirror writers begin a series about the glories of Britain, come with me to the Pennine heights above Sutton in Craven and Cowling.

The sun is beating down, there’s a light wind and the 360degree vista is incomparable.

To the south, bleak Keighley Moor, to the west, Pendle Hill, Lancashire home of the witches, and to the north Embsay Moor, Sharp Haw and Pin Haw, disappearing in the June mist. For company up ’ere we have cur lews, lapwings and even a skylark in the meadows where sheep and lambs graze the grass to billiard table shortness.

Often, you have this lonely spot to yourself. But today a few visitors have discovered one of Yorkshire’s gems.