The Great Outdoors

Steve Eddy finds a new route to familiar hills

near the start of this walk, was a hunting lodge built by Victorian landowner John Macnamara. I like the story that he built it for his mistress, but this is disputed. At any rate, as I set off I muse on the fact that a family could have so much money as to simply

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