A travelling exhibition showing 12,000 years of Lake District human history and how the iconic landscape developed has opened in Kendal. On a county-wide tour, ‘Unlocking the past, understanding the present’ is on show at the town’s library and will be highlighted in a special morning on Thursday 10 June, between 9.30 and 12.00. LDNP [...]
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in the Duddon Valley have uncovered over 3,000 previously unrecorded historic sites after a four-year survey of the area. The Duddon Valley Local History Group, in partnership with the Lake District National Park Authority, found ring-cairns that could date back to the Bronze Age. Two of the most exciting finds uncovered in the 90-square [...]
A BID for £250,000 is being made to keep rare documents used by famous fellwalker Alfred Wainwright in Cumbria. A collection of memoirs, correspondance, notes, photographs, sketches, maps and papers used by Wainwright – affectionately known as AW by his legions of devotees – to write his pictoral guides is being offered for sale by [...]
