Julia Bradbury at St Bees Head

Set the recorders: Julia Bradbury takes to the hills on our screens again next week with the follow up to the Wainwright’s Walks series.

This time, Julia follows the renowned fellwalker’s 192-mile Coast-to-Coast walk from St Bees on the Cumbrian coast to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Yorkshire shores of the North Sea. The first of six episodes is due to screen next Thursday, 9 April.

The series, produced by Skyworks, will be broadcast on BBC4 at 8.30pm and is due to be transmitted weekly.

Filming took Julia three weeks last year, covering the route which runs successively through the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors national parks.

The Dublin-born presenter already has Scafell Pike, Helvellyn and Wainwright’s favourite fell Haystacks under her belt. She told grough: “I have been walking, hiking and rambling with my dad, who’s a Derbyshire lad, since I was six years old.”

Julia above Swaledale

Producer Owen Rodd said filming on Nine Standards Rigg’s notorious bogs proved tricky, with Ms Bradbury getting stuck in the mud. The weather was unkind to the team during shooting. He said: “While we were at Ennerdale Bridge, it was just chucking it down, so we had to shoot some bits and go back. Luckily it was better when we were in Ennerdale Valley.”

The route was devised by the Grumpy Old Fellwalker Alfred Wainwright following completion of his series of Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells and is detailed in a hand-illustrated book similar to his Lake District series.

Wainwright was not prescriptive of the route, urging walkers to make up their own way from coast to coast, though most people undertaking the trek stick to his original trail, chosen for its quality rather than brevity.

grough walked the route a couple of years ago. Our story of the highs and lows includes a day-by-day account of the crossing of three of England’s northerly national parks.

The Wainwright Society also has a page dedicated to the Coast-to-Coast walk.