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Nimrod

There is an article in November's Country Walking about Julia and her Railway Walks. Nice pics of the Lake District too!
Nimrod

I'm 96!

Did anyone on here see Julia's "Kill it, Cook it, Eat it" series broadcast on BBC last January ?

So the mountains of Britain are classed variously as Munros, Corbetts, Marilyns & Wainwrights, names all based on people who climbed them, classified them and wrote about them. May I suggest a new grouping which emanated from a beer fuelled night at the Fish Hotel in Buttermere after completing the Buttermere round ....

Ladies and Gentlemen - I propose 'The Bradburys' - a special subsection of the 214 mountains described by AW in the Pictorial Guides dedicated to the delightful Ms Bradbury; those climbed by her in the TV series.

Andy,
Although Sir Hugh Munro (1856-1919), Alfred Wainwright and others climbed and counted lots of mountains and gave their names to classifications of them ( e.g. Munroes - Scottish mountains over 3000 feet ) there is no evidence of a Marilyn having done so, the name being homophonous with Munro and used for the 1,554 mountains in Britain with a drop of at least 500 feet (152m) on all sides.
Ah, yes, the Fish Hotel in Buttermere. I well remember an excellent meal there washed down with three pints of Jennings Bitter and followed by a couple of pints of Marstons Owd Roger on the evening of Saturday 10th October 1998, and a pint of Jennings there the following lunchtime before setting off for Cockermouth.

What's a Marylyn - or is it some joke linked to Munro?
Nimrod

I'll drink to that
Nimrod

A Marilyn is a hill with an ascent of at least 150m on all sides. There are 1542 of them to go at!

Thanks,Fell - who is it named after?
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Nimrod