Profile of Mary Welsh

"Every year hundreds of walkers in the Lake District place themselves in the hands of Mary Welsh. Meet her and it isn't hard to see why," says Cumbria Life magazine. "A sixty-something, she's enthusiastic, imperturbable and, above all, considerate - someone you would happily rely on."

Mary is an award-winning writer of walking books and a travel writer, having produced more than forty walking guide books. She writes regular columns in newspapers (290 walks in the Westmorland Gazette to date), in several magazines including Country Walking (over 385 walks) and for the internet. She has broadcast and appeared on television.

She says “I stood in London’s Oxford Street the other day. A drill was digging up the pavement, the crowds were enormous, the traffic horrendous, I thought ‘What am I doing here? I must be mad. I must return now, to Cumbria, put on my waterproofs and boots and set off into the quiet of the Lakes to where I feel I really belong’ – and I did just that.”

Mary's Walks in the Lake District have been published by the following:

Dalesman
Walks Around Coniston and Hawkshead
Walks Around Ullswater
Teashop Walks in the Lake District

Questa
Easy Rambles Around Wasdale
Easy Rambles Around Dunnerdale
Easy Rambles Around Eskdale
Walks with Children –Malham & Airedale
Walks with Children – Ribblesdale
Walks with children – Wensleydale
Walks with Children – Swaledale
New book to be published in 2010, Easy Rambles Around Ennerdale

Cicerone
Walks to Yorkshire Waterfalls
More Walks to Yorkshire Waterfalls
Lancaster Canal Walks
Walks from the Leeds-Liverpool Canal
Waterfall Walks – Teesdale and the High Pennines
Walking in Lancashire

Sigma
Country Walks around Kendal
Walking the Howgills
North Lakeland Walks with Children
Walking the Lakeland Fringes – The South-West

Countryside
A Country Journal

Westmorland Gazette
A Naturalist’s Guide to Lakeland Waterfalls
A Second Naturalist’s Guide to Lakeland Waterfalls
A Third Naturalist’s guide to Lakeland Waterfalls
A Fourth Naturalist’s Guide to Lakeland Waterfalls
Welsh Walks in Cumbria
Bowness Walks

Clan Walk Guides
Walking The Isle of Arran
Walking The Isle of Skye
Walking Wester Ross
Walking Perthshire
Walking The Western Isles
Walking Orkney
Walking Shetland
Walking The Isles of Islay, Jura and Colonsay
Walking Glenfinnan, The Road to the Isles (Morar, Ardnamurchan, Moidart, Morven, Canna, Rum, Eigg & Muck)
Walking The Isles of Mull (Iona, Coll and Tiree)
Walking Dumfries and Galloway
Walking Argyll and Bute
Walking Deeside, Donside and Angus
Walking The Trossachs, Loch Lomondside and the Campsie Fells
Walking Glencoe, Lochaber and the Great Glen
Walking Strathspey, Moray, Banff and Buchan

Other Clan books in preparation (to be published in 2010)
Loch Ness, Easter Ross and the Black Isle
Caithness and Sutherland

Please read Mary Welsh's Golden Rules for good, safe walking before setting out.