Alfred Wainwright

✓ Source-basedstable

English walker and writer

United Kingdom WritersLived 1907 to 1991 · aged 84

Compare

Fame49.2

Momentum2.7

Languages5

In century#121,360

Alfred Wainwright MBE, who preferred to be known as A. , was an English fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Also inDeutsch

Photos 4

Plaque to Alfred Wainwright in Buttermere parish church

Book One of the Pictorial Guide

Innominate Tarn on Haystacks, Wainwright's favourite fell, where his ashes were scattered.

Plaque in Wainwright's Yard, Kendal

Awards 1

Member of the Order of the British Empire

Writers from United Kingdom 6

Kim Darroch49.2

Scarlett Curtis49.2

Adam Phillips49.2 Eve Pollard49.2

John Wagner49.2

Joyce Cary49.2

About this person

Alfred Wainwright MBE, who preferred to be known as A. Wainwright or A.W., was an English fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, published between 1955 and 1966 and consisting entirely of reproductions of his manuscript, has become the standard reference work to 214 of the fells of the English Lake District. Among his 40-odd other books is the first guide to the Coast to Coast Walk, a 182-mile (293-kilometre) long-distance footpath devised by Wainwright which remains popular today.

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Country

United Kingdom