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The Lake District on the Around-England Blog

This page carries a large collection of blog posts relating to the English Lake District in simple date order. To see them in a more disaggregated format go to The Lake District, Cumbria – Selected Blog Posts where you’ll be able to drill down to the three major areas and to individual lakes.

Or go to The Lake District Directory for “Where to Go and What to Do”.

Cockermouth Woolfest

February 1, 2012

The Cockermouth Woolfest has been held annually since 2005. It takes place on a Friday and Saturday in June, and includes a great range of displays and activities relating to natural fibres, and especially wool. Spinning, dyeing, weaving, knitting and felting are just some of the craft themes covered by well over 100 stallholders. Woolfest [...]

Splendid New Lake District DVD

November 17, 2011

Lake District Trails 1, features Mark Richards, the well-known broadcaster on BBC Radio Cumbria and author of many walking guides to the Lake Distrct and further afield. This first section of a week’s walk starts on the eastern fringes of the Lake District and has been named, “The Westmorland High Way”. “The opening sequence is [...]

Big Ben is Tilting to the North West

October 28, 2011

I read today that Big Ben, since it was built back in the 1850s, has been slowly tilting. No, it has not yet become the Leaning Tower of London but the rate of tilt has increased since the Jubilee Line was built nearby and now has reached almost one millimetre per year. Even more interesting, [...]

Lake District Jigsaws by Robert Harding

October 24, 2011

Earlier today I uploaded a page on the site here with just a small sample of Lake District jigsaws based on photographs from Robert Harding. They will make splendid gifts whether for Lake District lovers, for jigsaw enthusiasts who you want to encourage to visit the area, or for anyone who loves beautiful scenery and [...]

Houses in the Lake District

October 14, 2011

I was encouraged to see the recent reports that the Lake District National Park Authority was proposing hundreds of new affordable houses to be spread around the national park, and would be carrying out consultations. This consultation programme is now in progress, and Chris Warren, the national park’s Spatial Planning and Communities Team Leader, said [...]

Cockermouth: More Men of Science

September 10, 2011

On our main page about the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth there is mention of John Dalton the eminent early-nineteenth century scientist who first proposed the atomic theory of matter. John Dalton was, however, not the only eminent scientist to be born in or around Cockermouth. Just a few years older was William Woodville (1752-1805), also [...]

Return to Longsleddale

August 27, 2011

On Thursday afternoon I made a long-postponed return to what, in my not entirely unbiased opinion, is possibly the most beautiful valley in the Lake District, Longsleddale. Having described it in those terms I have to say that it is also one of the less visited valleys. Its access is away from the major tourist [...]

The Lake Artists Society Summer Exhibition, Grasmere

August 22, 2011

This afternoon a visit to Grasmere was rounded off well by a look around the 2011 Summer Exhibition of the Lake Artists Society in the village’s New Hall. The society was founded in 1904 as one of the many initiatives of the multi-talented artist and historian, W G Collingwood, who in his younger years served [...]

View over Burneside this morning

August 22, 2011

This was the view over Burneside, near Kendal, Cumbria, on the southern fringe of the Lake District this morning. I have another post, of the Yorkshire Dales, planned for later in the day but thought that for now I’d put up this shot from my morning dog-walk

Lanthwaite Wood – Memory of 2009

August 19, 2011

Lanthwaite Wood is a National Trust property at the foot of Crummock Water in the Lake District, alongside the point where the River Cocker leaves the lake. The car park there provides an excellent starting point for walks, which often give opportunity to see Red Squirrels. The River Cocker flows from here down Lorton Vale [...]

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