Archive walk: Appleby and Great Ormside

Appleby and Great Ormside By Andrew Gallon. First published in Cumbria magazine, June 2016 Start/Finish: The Cloisters, Boroughgate, Appleby (GR: NY683204) Distance: 7.75 miles/12.5 km Time: 3–3.5 hours Terrain: Field and riverbank paths, green lanes, tracks and quiet...

Archive walk: Langdale Pikes

Langdale Pikes First published: February 2011 Start/Finish: LDNP Car Park at New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel (GR: 295 063) Distance: 5 miles/ 7 1⁄2 km Time: 3-4 hours Height Gain: 2,500 ft/ 750 m Terrain: A full-blown fell walk on clear paths with some steep sections of both...

Archive recipe: Sawrey pie

Sawrey pie First published: July 2016 Ingredients 250g shortcrust pastry 220g cooked rhubarb 2 tbsp apricot jam 40g butter 40g caster sugar 2 eggs, beaten 50g self-raising flour sieved 1 tsp ground ginger ½ tsp ground cinnamon Method 1. Stew the chopped rhubarb in a...

Archive feature: Return of the Swallow

Return of the Swallow By Eileen Jones. First published in Cumbria magazine, March 2012 Swallow under sail on Ullswater It was a day when the worlds of fiction and reality overlapped. A small girl, looking very like one of the children in a famous story, paddled in the...

Top 7 Cumbrian breweries

The Cumbria and Lakeland Walker team reveal our region’s best breweries Saturday June 15, 2024 will see people across the country raising a glass for Beer Day Britain. Well, we say a huge cheers to that! What will be your beer of choice? Here are the Cumbria and...
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