Description

Terry Ashby invites the reader to share his adventures and experiences of walking the length of the West Riding-North Riding Boundary to prove that, like other ancient boundaries, it’s still there despite political and bureaucratic efforts to extinguish it. At times gentle, lyrical and dryly humorous, at others outspoken, uncompromising and hard-hitting, this book deals with many countryside issues and will not slip conveniently into any one specific subject pigeon-hole.

Born where West Riding’s urban areas encroach on the Pennine hills, Terry Ashby has spent much of his life exploring the fells and moors of northern England, together with remote regions in other parts of the world. His interests are wide-ranging- local and natural history, geology, geography, architecture, conservation and social, political and cultural aspects of rural life. His first book, ‘Yorskhire’s North-West Frontier: Walking the Old County Boundary, was published in 2019. He works as a volunteer on countryside management programmes in the North Pennines.