Mackenzie's Lonning

 



THE second of our guided lonning walks saw 16 people head down Mackenzie's Lonning, Cleator Moor. The abundance of summer had given way to the more sparse autumn but it still made for a pleasant covered walk down this sunken lonning. And there were also one or two dog walkers enjoying the lonning, including a man cutting and trimming one of the hazel branches into a walking stick. There were blackites and sloes aplenty but this was a day for chatting and slareing (slow walking) rather than picking fruit. The walk itself was only half an hour and some returned by another route. But those who came back with me back along Mackenzie's Lonning agreed that you really have to walk both ways to see a lonning properly! It just looks so different when you come back the other way.

Here's the link to my lonnings map
(including Mackenzie's Lonning).