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Farmers
caught Cross Dressing!
No,
only kidding, its actually the Combustionaires veteran tractor team
who will perform a square dance with Fergies and Dexters at this
year's Cockermouth Show on August 1..Find
out more...
Check out these excellent illustrated walks for
the Northern mountains.Skiddaw
mountain info
Rev
Up your Engines!
The Vintage Sports-Car Club - for people with
cars built before 1931 - held its Lakeland Trials event Saturday
November 8 2008. www.vscc.co.uk
Baywalk
Borrowdale's Caveman
There is a new biography of the pioneering rock
climber and Borrowdale caveman Millican Dalton To find out more
visit
www.professor-of-adventure.com
where details of millican and the book can be found.
See Hadrian face to face
A rare chance to see a giant bust of the Emperor
Hadrian comes to Cumbria...find out more at foot of our Romans
in Cumbria page.
Learn to Speak Cumbrian?
Find out what it means to be Gattered
and the many other dialect Cumbrian words that hark back to the
days when the Vikings were the main farmers in the Lakeland dales.
Such words as Knock and knash, neb, mush and scran are just some
of those explained on this Dialect Dictionary web site.
Donald Campbell and Bluebird
The story of how the wreck of the record
breaking jet boat came to light.
Foxhunting
in the Lakes..
MPs brought an end to John Peel's sport
in February 2005.
Follow this link to find out more about the Lakeland
hunting packs and to hear John Peel's song.
Horse
Fair 2009
Find out more
about the traditional Appleby Horse Fair...due to start June 4 2009.
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Brief
Encounters?
Find out why Carnforth is just one railway
location worth a visit.
Edward Lear in Cumbria
Celebrating a journey through the lakes
by our favourite nonsense wordsmith...Find
out more
In
Tune with the Landscape?
The locals in Langdale are not greatly impressed with these Mongolian
Yurts that have been dropped into the valley by the National Trust.
How they got approval is a puzzle...
Nightime
Mountain Dramas
An exhibition of extraordinary
photographs, by rising star of the photography world, Henry Iddon,
were taken from the summits of the peaks of the English Lake District
and capture the landscape at nights.Websites:
www.wordsworth.org.uk; www.spots-of-time.co.uk
The quiet shores of the
Solway
St Bega's Walk
Find out about the inter-Irish
'Murphy Riots'
Ennerdale, the quiet valley
Lakeland Breweries
Lakeland Gardens
Wildlife in your parish
Tullie House at Carlisle has this excellent web site which tells
you which rare species live in every parish of Cumbria...
http://www.lakelandwildlife.co.uk/
Common
Land in the Lakes
photo: www.visitcumbria.com
The Countryside Agency has completed maps of all
open country and registered common land in the Lakes.new Ordnance
Survey Explorer Maps now show open access land in orange. But the
right to roam does not extend to horses or motoristed vehicles.......to
find out more and check out areas of interest go to http://www.countryside.gov.uk
Child Labour in Cumbrian Mines
Life was cheap
as coal was hewn under the Irish Sea..Learn
more at our web site
The Coniston postman always....
 takes
a picture of the wonder of the Lakes each day..join him at www.lakelandcam.co.uk
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