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 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 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....

Archive feature: ‘CUMBRIA AT THE MOVIES’

by | Mar 19, 2024 | Features

‘We’ve gone on holiday by mistake’ Three decades on, Maggie B. Dickinson revisits Cumbrian locations for the classic Withnail & I – cinematic debauchery at its finest! First published in December 2017 Paul McGann (left) as Marwood and Richard E. Grant as...

Archive walk: Bannerdale Crags

by | Feb 15, 2024 | Walks

Bannerdale Crags Gary Richardson’s fell hike climaxes with adventures on the riverbank Archive: May/June 2015 TERRAIN: good paths and tracks, wet in placesDISTANCE: 7 miles/11.25 kmTIME: 3-4 hoursCLIMB: 1,710 ft/510 mSTART/FINISH: car park opposite Mungrisdale...