St. Bees

St Bees is an interesting place about five miles west south-west of Whitehaven in Cumbria. The name St. Bees is a corruption of the Norse name for the village, variously given as 'Kirki-Becoc' or 'Kirkby Behoc', which can be translated as the "church of Bega", relating to the local Saint Bega. This is were Beth and I accidentally found St. Bees Head, the most westerly point of Northern England on the Irish Sea. What a beautiful place.

I think its main claim to fame is the Wainwright Coast to Coast Walk. The walk is almost 220 miles, devised by Alfred Wainwright, it passes through three national parks: the Lake District National Park, the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the North York Moors National Park. Wainwright recommends that walkers dip their booted feet in the Irish Sea at St Bees and, at the end of the walk, dip their naked feet in the North Sea at Robin Hood's Bay. Some other day. We city folk were too busy talking pictures of sheep.