Formerly known as
Castlehowe Scar, Shap, Penrith, Cumbria, CA10 3LG 01931 716001
Formerly known as
Castlehowe Scar, Shap, Penrith, Cumbria, CA10 3LG 01931 716001 |
Footloose Fieldstudies is run by Alexandra Barbour, BEd FRGS. From 1991 - 2005 Alex owned and directed the Yorkshire Dales Field Centre which became a centre of excellence for A level Geography fieldwork, adult walks for U3A (University of the Third Age), dry stone walling and cultural heriatge courses. Alex has Walking Group Leader status (gold standard of lower level guiding, examined by Moutain Leader Training Board of the UK) for leading walks in all areas which don't require protection, ropes and helmets! She holds a First Aid in Remote Places certificate and is a First Responder. Alex has recently been Education Officer for the Learning in Limestone Country project - guiding walks for school children on the NNRs of Malham and Ingleborough - working in partnership with Natural England and the Yorkshire Dales National Park. As a part of the LiLC project she commissioned and saw to fruition the recently published iconic book "Ingleborough: Landscape and History" by David Johnson. The book has been been reviewed by Colin Speakman in the Yorkshire Dales Review as "combining scholarship and extensive research with a highly readable narrative style; as accessible to the general reader as the specialist geologist or landscape historian".
"Our mentor, Alex, was knowledgeable, charming and patient, explaining everything with an enthusiasm which was infectious whilst she nursed us over tricky rock-strewn terrain or boggy-bits." U3A LEIGHTON LINSLADE |
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