£300
million Pipeline through the Lakes
United Utilities want to build the UK's biggest
integrated water supply pipeline through the heart of the Lake District.
The £300 million project, which will also alter the shorelines
of both Crummock and Ennerdale lakes has been launched because of
a perceived threat to the long term viability of around half a million
freshwater mussels. Read on as Lakestay
raises concerns...
January 2015...UK Government concedes to national park
fracking ban...more
A Second
Osprey viewing point planned
In
2013 there were four pairs of Osprey in
the Lake District and prospects look good for the birds. There are
plans for a
second Osprey viewing point...Read how this year's juvenile birds
coped with crossing the Sahara desert on their migration
south...
Mist
Below...
Dramatic inversion below Red Pike caught in superb
picture by @adrianstrand
Check out these excellent illustrated walks for
the Northern mountains.Skiddaw
mountain info
The
Roman Fort on
the mountaintops
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.
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.
The
Real Bluebird
Find out about the restoration of Donald Campbell's
K7,
not to be confused with the K777 replica that has been
controversially in the news.
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UK Taxpayer
to underwrite Cumbrian plan for biggest Atomic Power Station in Europe
The autumn statement (3/12/2014) included provision for the UK
to under write a new nuclear power station to be built at Sellafield.
Thus while gas and oil prices drop, UK consumers will have to guarantee
a double price for any new nuclear power stations.
Meanwhile in 2015 the emergency alert zone around Sellafield
has been extended
to seven kilometres.
West Cumbria is already likely to be the home of the UK's nuclear
waste for several centuries. More
...
Cumbria's
own 'Brunel'
Keswick Convention...what's
it all about?
Saving the Lakes from an Army of Conifers
A Tale to amuse Jonathan Swift?
How
they took the first elephants to Australia!
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
Cockermouth after the Floods
Cold
War Cumbria
Find out some of the ways Cumbria was embroiled
in the Cold War...Read on
Borrowdale's Caveman
The eccentric pioneering rock climber and Borrowdale
caveman Millican Dalton...more .
Nuke
Dump for West Lakeland ?
The
granite under parts of Eskdale and Wasdale may prove ideal for the
UK's proposed underground nuclear dump(estimated
cost so far £4.3 billion).
Meanwhile the guardians of the Lakes, the National Park Authority
says it's inappropriate to object...Lakestay disagrees and says it
is much better to keep the waste above ground where it can be monitored.
But huge community 'bribes' may cloud Cumbrians' judgement.....Read
more on this important issue...or see the
video
Meanwhile the quango, West Cumbria Tourism is part funded by Nuclear
Management Partners, operators of Sellafield.
Wasdale Shepherds Meet enjoyed late summer sun. Trail
hounds race for the finish (Pic M.McKenzie) Meanwhile Cumbrian
foxhunting packs wait to see if the new government
rescind the Foxhunting Ban?
The
Doomed Hamlets
This was the last sermon at the church before the reservoir
flooded the valley.
Read about another
chapel lost forever.
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/
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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