Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership

Friday 18 December, 2020, by News Release

A short, popular walk in the Westmorland Dales can be enjoyed once again after a footbridge close to Scandal Beck […]

Thursday 24 September, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

With its location alongside strategic routes cross country and north to the frontiers of Roman Britain, Westmorland was always going […]

Thursday 9 July, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

As we discussed in our earlier blog post, Packhorses and their routes, trade goods were carried the length and breadth […]

Thursday 11 June, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

In our last ‘A Way Through’ blog post we took a look at the incredible 1.5 mile long Neolithic stone […]

Friday 22 May, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

The small town of Shap lies on what has been for millennia an important long-distance north-south trade route. To the […]

Monday 4 May, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

Kendal had long been established as a centre for the wool trade and we’ve already seen that hundreds of journeys […]

Friday 24 April, 2020, by News Release

Four young people apprenticed in countryside management in the Westmorland Dales are finding ways to practise their new skills in […]

Monday 6 April, 2020, by Karen Griffiths

Alongside the itinerant pedlars trudging the roads of the Westmorland Dales carrying their heavy packs of goods, were travelling ‘chapmen’. […]

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 […]