Rangers repair Ravenstonedale footbridge
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 […]
CONTINUE READINGFriday 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 […]
CONTINUE READINGThursday 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 […]
CONTINUE READINGThursday 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 […]
CONTINUE READINGThursday 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 […]
CONTINUE READINGFriday 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 READINGMonday 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 READINGFriday 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 READINGMonday 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 READINGThursday 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 READINGWednesday 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 […]
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