Roman soldiers and their roads in Westmorland 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 […] CONTINUE READING
Medieval trade routes in Westmorland Thursday 9 July, 2020, by Karen Griffiths As we discussed in our earlier blogpost, Packhorses and their routes, trade goods were carried the length and breadth of […] CONTINUE READING
Way-finding in Neolithic Westmorland 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 […] CONTINUE READING
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
