Ladle Lane walls restored
Friday 4 March, 2022, by Karen Griffiths
Ladle Lane is one of those delightful walled paths which invite you to explore. It leaves the village of Crosby […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Westmorland Dales is bounded on all sides by major through-routes – the Lune gap; the Eden valley and east to west though Ravenstonedale to Kirkby Stephen. For thousands of years, people and their animals have used these ways through the landscape and they have all left their mark. This project aims to explore the history of these routes and of the people who travelled them and to share their stories with the wider public.
For further information, contact the project manager on 01756 751619 or karen.griffiths@yorkshiredales.org.uk
A Way Through is being delivered by The Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership Scheme, a four-year programme with a vision is to unlock and reveal the hidden heritage of the Westmorland Dales. The project has been grant funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Friday 4 March, 2022, by Karen Griffiths
Ladle Lane is one of those delightful walled paths which invite you to explore. It leaves the village of Crosby […]
CONTINUE READINGTuesday 26 October, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
In this blogpost Jan Hicks explores an early trade route called ‘Breasthigh’ which runs west from Greenholme via Bretherdale (where […]
CONTINUE READINGMonday 25 October, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
Local historian and archaeologist Jan Hicks has been carrying out some on-the-ground research for the ‘A Way Through’ project. She […]
CONTINUE READINGTuesday 19 October, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
Thanks to Hilary Wilson for passing these notes made by George Horn of Tebay of his days working on construction […]
CONTINUE READINGThursday 14 October, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
There’s been quite a bit of interest in the research that we’ve been doing as part of the ‘A Way […]
CONTINUE READINGTuesday 3 August, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
The life of John Ellis Watson is another classic tale from the period of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. We came across […]
CONTINUE READINGTuesday 13 July, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
As well as providing jobs during their construction phase and then while they were operational, Westmorland’s new railways provided an […]
CONTINUE READINGFriday 2 July, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
The story of the Worrall family illustrates yet another side to working on the railway, namely that railway construction needed […]
CONTINUE READINGTuesday 29 June, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
In our previous blog post Railway Families in Westmorland: the Ratcliffes, we discovered a remarkable dynasty associated with the railway […]
CONTINUE READINGTuesday 22 June, 2021, by Karen Griffiths
Exploring the nineteenth and early twentieth century censuses for Westmorland reveals how the coming of the railway offered employment opportunities […]
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