Guides

Mountain Biking in the Lake District

June 29, 2012

In contrast with yesterday’s more leisurely book about historic houses () today we have two for the more energetic among us. I admit that I’m not qualified to judge myself but recently I gave as a birthday gift to a younger family member. He was delighted with it so I thought I’d put up here [...]

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M6 Cumbria … Short Journey Breaks

August 13, 2011

Here’s a little book that I came across today at the Rheged Centre near Penrith. I bought a copy and have devoured it since returning home. Its small size betrays the wealth of information and ideas inside its covers. The idea is simple. The M6 motorway, north of Lancaster and Carnforth, as it enters Cumbria [...]

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Collingwood – The Lake Counties

July 25, 2011

When this book was written there was no such county as Cumbria. The Lake District spread across the boundaries of three counties: Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire. Cumbria was then seventy years into the future. W. G. Collingwood studied under John Ruskin at Oxford. For many of Ruskin’s years at Brantwood, by Coniston Water, Collingwood served [...]

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