Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership

Thursday 2 April, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

The itinerant pedlar (or peddler) carrying their bulky packs of “smallwares” on their back or with a horse or donkey […]

Wednesday 25 March, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

The first public postal service in Britain began in 1635 with letters carried from post to post in bags by […]

Monday 23 March, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

People have always needed to travel long distances in Britain, both for work and for social reasons. Before the seventeenth […]

Friday 13 March, 2020, Published by Karen Griffiths

On our way to meet up with members of the Ravenstonedale Parish History Group yesterday, we took the opportunity to […]

Tuesday 10 March, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

Driving along the tarmac roads that cut their way through the Westmorland Dales today, it’s hard to imagine the trackless […]

Monday 9 March, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

Our research in the murder of Thomas Hunter a carrier from Archer Hill in Orton Parish in the Westmorland Dales […]

Wednesday 4 March, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

The nineteenth century ‘common carrier‘ was often entrusted with considerable sums of money as he or she made their way […]

Friday 28 February, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

In a previous blogpost examining the role of the country carrier in Westmorland we came across a Miss Elizabeth Nelson, […]

Thursday 27 February, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

The development of turnpike roads in the mid-eighteenth century, funded from tolls paid by their users, meant that wheeled vehicles […]

Tuesday 18 February, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

We will spend quite a bit of time in the ‘A Way Through‘ project looking into the history and influence […]

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