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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
Hardknott roman fort in its fantastic setting in the mountains
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.

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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The Monks Bridge
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Alice in Wonderland and the Lakes?
Read of one Cumbrian mill history...a rise and fall.

Flora on the Fells

No not the magarine! but a web site featuring Cumbrian plants and flowers.


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