Archive walk: Appleby and Great Ormside

by | Nov 13, 2024 | Latest, Walks

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

by | Oct 1, 2024 | Latest, Walks

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

by | Oct 1, 2024 | Latest, Recipes

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

by | Sep 3, 2024 | Features, Latest

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...

Archive recipe: Westmorland Lovage Soup

by | Mar 19, 2024 | Latest, Recipes

Westmorland Lovage Soup First published: August 2018 You never know which way the weather’s going to turn in September, as we approach the ‘back end’ of the year. This lovely old fashioned recipe, based on a Westmorland original, is fantastic hot or chilled, however...

Archive walk: Wet Sleddale

by | Mar 19, 2024 | Latest, Walks

Wet Sleddale First published: February 2011 WET Sleddale is a lonely, remote valley which lies south-west of the village of Shap, theM6, the A6 and theWest Coast main railway line. It bisects the Shap Fells and is reached by a long narrow lane that leads from the A6....
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