Buildings

“Houses of the Lake District” – Christopher Holliday

June 29, 2012

Christopher Holliday’s 2011 book, , is surely a “must” for anyone either interested in the Lake District and its history or planning to incoporate historic house visits into a Lakeland holiday. Equally it will provide a splendid reminder of places visited in the past and an encouragement to return. In just over two hundred pages [...]

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Historic Farmhouses in and around Westmorland

August 4, 2011

I bought this book, Historic Farmhouses in and around Westmorland, many years ago from the Westmorland Gazette office in Kendal. My interest was personal as it includes a description of Ashes Farm, Staveley, which was my maternal grandfather’s birthplace way back in the 1870s. His father before him was born in Longsleddale and farmed high [...]

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Castles of Cumberland and Westmorland

July 16, 2011

The Lake District, along with surrounding areas of Cumbria, is well-supplied with ancient fortified buildings. Pele towers and castles met a great and often urgent need in an era centuries ago when the county lay in the direct line of repeated Scottish invasions. Sometimes these structures were enough to protect the people. At other times [...]

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