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 his [...]
THE Lake District’s new fell top assessor’s prediction that an avalanche was imminent on the fells has come true.
As warmer wet weather entered Cumbria on Friday, Keswick Mountain Rescue Team were called to assist three climbers struck by an avalanche in Hind Crag Gully, Seathwaite, Borrowdale valley.
Jason Taylor, the Lake District’s fell top assessor, recently [...]
TWO of the Lake District’s larger bodies of water have frozen over.
Derwent Water and Bassenthwaite Lake have a layer of ice almost entirely covering their surfaces.
“It is absolutely spectacular,” said Penny Webb, National Trust countryside officer for Borrowdale. “There is also snow over a lot of the ice so it is very white. It has [...]
A LAKE District village plans to build a weir across the River Kent and harness electricity to sell on to the national grid – with any profits fed back into the community.
The concept of a community-owned hydro scheme in Kentmere, near Kendal, was born out of a parish meeting almost two years ago and, if [...]
A FAMILIAR road sign showing a hunched old couple with a walking stick has been given a sprightly makeover.
The new ‘younger’ sign has been placed on the summit of the aptly named Coniston Old Man. The sign, which depicts a couple with straight backs and walking poles, is one of many that has been erected [...]
LAKE District conservation charity has been experimenting with an ancient technique to build footpaths – using native sheep wool.
Stone and gravel alone was not enough for the large, deep peat bog at Mart Crag Moor between Langdale and Borrowdale as it would have sunk into the bog and disappeared. But the Fix the Fells project [...]
PASSENGER flights could bring thousands of tourists from all over the world direct to Cumbria as soon as next year, says the boss of Carlisle Airport.
Andy Judge, director of the airport – which is owned by Stobart Air – has told the county’s tourism leaders that passenger flights could be landing at a revamped airport [...]
A QUESTION mark is hanging over an ambitious scheme to update and expand Windermere Steamboat Museum.
The multi-million pound plans to create a new visitor centre and display areas for the museum’s rare and historic vessels are to be scaled back because of the recession.
The organisation behind the venture, The Lakeland Arts Trust, confirmed it would [...]
LAKE District conservation charity is set to star in a popular television programme.
Members of Fix the Fells, which aims to prevent further erosion of upland paths, were filmed working alongside volunteers from the West Runton Christian Youth Group repairing a footpath near the Wrynose Pass for BBC 2’s Escape to the Country.
The programme, which will [...]
SEVEN of the smallest rodents in Britain have set up home at a Lake District tourist attraction.
Lakes Aquarium, near Newby Bridge, has welcomed the arrival of a family of harvest mice, which each weigh less than a two-pence coin. The miniature creatures are from a species that is the only mammal in the world with [...]
