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...

Archive walk: Borrowdale and High Spy

by | Apr 23, 2024 | Walks

High Spy with my little eye Keith Wood combines a riverside stroll with an airy ridgewalk to see both faces of Borrowdale   First published: July 2007 Whatever your motivation for walking in the Lake District, be it the sense of achievement of climbing one of the...

Archive feature: Final Farewell for the Lady of the Lamp

by | Apr 22, 2024 | Features

Final Farewell for the Lady of the Lamp First published: April 1994, by Linda Viney Peg Braithwaite – the lady of the lamp at Walney Island PEG Braithwaite, the only principal woman lighthouse keeper in England, is finally packing away her yellow dusters and retiring...

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...