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and Lake District magazine
A warm welcome to Cumbria! The historic publication that searches far and wide to share the many stories of this special corner of the globe.
Seventy-five years ago, three sub-regional groups of the Youth Hostel Association set out to produce a magazine. Its aim was to celebrate a landscape and locale which they relished so much. Leslie Hewkin, Cumbria’s very first editor from 1947, established the magazine’s aim to “help all to a greater knowledge, love and care of the countryside”, and subsequent editor, the legendary Bill Mitchell, prioritised “putting people before things”. Seventy-five years later, these fundamental doctrines remain at the heart of this…
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WELCOME TO CUMBRIA
A warm welcome to Cumbria! The historic publication that searches far and wide to share the many stories of this special corner of the globe. Seventy-five years ago, three sub-regional groups of the...
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