He also created Wainwright’s Way, a long-distance walk highlighting Alfred Wainwright’s life, from Blackburn to Cumbria.<\/p>\n
“Wainwright is associated with the Lakes but never forgot his Lancashire roots. He spent 34 years in Blackburn and east Lancashire shaped his life in many ways,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The mill towns and surrounding countryside all influenced him. Blackburn Rovers was another love. He watched matches at Ewood Park regularly and founded the supporters’ club.”<\/p>\n
Mr Burton also took part in the Pennine Way 60th anniversary events.<\/p>\n
He said it highlighted changing tastes in outdoor activity and walking as well as the reduction of simple, cheap accommodation in some rural areas.<\/p>\n
“It was very popular through the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, but today, less people seem to walk it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“And much of the network of simple walkers’ accommodation which supported it has gone. In particular, many youth hostels and basic B&Bs along the route have closed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He also created Wainwright’s Way, a long-distance walk highlighting Alfred Wainwright’s life, from Blackburn to Cumbria. “Wainwright is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-347829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}