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 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...

Top 7 Cumbrian breweries

by | Jun 14, 2024 | Our Favourites

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...

Archive recipe: Old Westmorland Sweetbake

by | Apr 23, 2024 | Recipes

Old Westmorland Sweetbake First published: June 2018 Delicious pastries filled with dried fruit and spices, mostly, but not always, with rum included, are an old favourite in the Lake District. Here’s a version of a recipe originally from the Kirkby Stephen area: it’s...