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Around-England
http://around-england.co.uk/blog
A new blog (May 2008) about England, initially with an emphasis on the English lakes - not only the Lake District but also lakes elsewhere in the country - and linked to our site, "England's Lakes"
- Added on: May 19th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: David Murray
- Listed in: Destinations Destinations
- Tags: England lake district wordsworth cumbria english lakes english lakeland
Recent Posts
Visiting Coniston in Winter
As I started to write this item for our blog the newspapers, radio and TV, both local and national, were full of Lake District and wider Cumbrian stories. More than a foot (>300 mm) of rain in little more than twentyfour hours had swollen rivers...
Coniston Coppermines
The copper mines around Coniston were worked from at least the middle of the 16th century and, with a number of breaks in production in between, up to end of the 19th when competition from high-grade ore imported from overseas killed this local Lake ...
Lake District Floods - Cumbria Newspaper Links
To assist our blog readers who are not familiar with the local newspapers of the Lake District and Cumbria here are three newspapers whose web sites are frequently updated with latest news. Hopefully this may help some who are concerned to keep up ...
Cumberland Show Moves to Carlisle Racecourse
I’ve blogged previously (although I see it’s more than a year ago) about the Westmorland County Show but never about the Cumberland Show, the big annual event of the Cumberland Agricultural Society which since 1991 has been held at Ricker...
Cumbria County Council - New Chief Executive
Jill Stannard, who has for some time been acting chief executive of Cumbria County Council was today confirmed in the post. I congratulate her and wish her well in the post. It may seem strange to some people that a blog written by someone who does n...
Lake District and Cumbria History On The Move
Back in the early-70s, when what is now Cumbria was spread between Cumberland, Westmorland, and parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, I became a frequent user of the county record offices. What began as a family history search became a local history st...
