Early trade routes through Shap 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 […] CONTINUE READING
Turnpike roads: Kendal to Shap 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 […] CONTINUE READING
Westmorland apprentices work through lockdown 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 […] CONTINUE READING
The country chapman 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’. […] CONTINUE READING
Pedlars and packmen in Westmorland 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 […] CONTINUE READING
Westmorland mail coaches 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 […] CONTINUE READING
The Good Intent and The Kendal Fly: Westmorland stagecoaches 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 […] CONTINUE READING
Turnpike road: Tebay to Ravenstonedale 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 […] CONTINUE READING
Route markers in the Westmorland Dales 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 […] CONTINUE READING
Victorian carters in Orton 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 […] CONTINUE READING
