Search
Cumbrian
Books

Go There Now

Click and Collect
If you live locally and would like to come in and collect you order you can select Click and Collect from the drop down menu in your basket and you won't have to pay postage.

Delivery
For customers in the UK the normal delivery time is 3 working days.

	A Year in Silverdale: Observations of natural life in and around this Lancashire village Richard Norman £9.95 Silverdale stands in well-wooded limestone country on the shores of Morecambe Bay. This is the diary of a year in Silverdale where natural beauty, fauna and wildlife abound. The book is teeming with wild animals, birds, flowers, trees, butterflies and plants - together with their medicinal uses. Learn about folklore and the old-fashioned country sayings. Everything is beautifully described, together with photographs by the author and lovely pen and ink drawings by Sue Thompson. Published by : Helm Press Published date : 2004 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Carlisle & Penrith - Local Street Atlas £3.99 This local street atlas of Carlisle and Penrith, and their surrounding towns and villages, gives detailed coverage of the area at a scale of 4.5 inches to 1 mile. Published by : Philips Published date : May 2008 Format : 142mm x 205mm stitched paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Circular Walks Along The Pennine Way Kevin Donkin £12.99 The Pennine Way is Britain's longest, most popular and most renowned long-distance path. This book presents a series of fifty circular walks along and around the entire route. All of them can be done in a day and all of them finish where they started. Published by : Frances Lincoln Published date : 2006 Format : Small Pocket Book Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Cumbria at War: The Home Front DVD Andrew Leitch £13.99 Narrated by local broadcaster Eric Wallace, this film captures the spirit of wartime Cumbria. Using rarely seen material, Cumbria at War takes the armchair historian into another world, with POW camps, devastation caused by the Blitz and much more. Published by : Andrew Leitch Published date : 2005 Format : DVD Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Cumbria: The Lake District and Its Counties John Wyatt £50.00 This monumental work, completed by some 200 magnificent illustrations mainly in full colour, covers every aspect of Cumbria. Whether it be the history, the people, the architecture, the topography, the arts or the tourist attractions, all is expertly and lovingly described. Based upon a deep knowledge of almost every valley and fell the book comprehensively embraces all that is noteworthy from Morecambe Bay in the south to Solway Firth and the Scottish border in the north, and from the Irish Sea coast in the west to the Pennines in the east. Published by : Robert Hale Limited Published date : 2004 Format : Large hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Cumbria: True to the Land - The Hill Farming Photographs of Tony Hopkins Tony Hopkins £9.99 Photographs tell stories. The collection of images at the heart of this book capture a defining moment in the uplands, and in the lives of people who make a living from the land, on the hill farms and hamlets of the Lake District, the Pennines and the Eden Valley. Published by : Halsgrove Published date : 2004 Format : Large hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Discovering the Eden Valley Charlie Emett £12.99 This book explores 100 aspects of the Eden Valley's history, from ancient castles and pele towers to ten modern sculptures along the river, from famous sons and daughters of the area, such as Lady Anne Clifford, to local eccentrics. Curiosities such as the beck that runs uphill, the only wind in Britain that has a name (the Helm) and the Eden Gorge rock carvings are not forgotten. Published by : Sutton Publishing Published date : 2005 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Eagle's Eye DVD Fiona Armstrong £9.99 In more than two hours of captivating television, these six programmes take the viewer on the aerial trip of a lifetime, touring Cumbria, the Lake District, Hadrian's Wall, South West Scotland, the Scottish Borders, the East Coast and the Isle of Man, watching the magnificent landscape unfold below. Published by : Border Television Published date : 2004 Format : DVD. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Exploring Wild Flowers of the Solway Coast Rose Wolfe £3.50 The Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty was designated in 1964 and covers 118 square kilometres of the Solway Plain. It is a unique landscape shaped by the sea, wind and the people who have lived there. This book identifies the many different plants and flowers which grow along the coast. There are colour photographs to help identify them as well as information as to when they are in bloom Published by : Countryside Agency Published date : 2006 Format : Small Paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Cumbria Nicholas Corder £10.99 The criminal cases vividly described by Nicholas Corder in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Cumbria's long history. Published by : Wharncliffe Books Published date : July 2008 Format : 156mm x 234mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Guide to Rural England - The North West - (Country Living Magazine) David Gerrard £10.99 This 3rd edition to the North West of England has been attractively redesigned providing more information on the places, people and activities covered. Published by : Travel Publishing Published date : May 2008 Format : 210mm x 145mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Hadrian's Wall Derry Brabbs £14.99 Hadrian's Wall has been designated a World Heritage Site since 1987 and in 2005 was also incorporated into a wider UNESCO category - the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Published by : Frances Loncoln Published date : July 2008 Format : 267mm x 250mm hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	History & Traditions of Ravenstonedale Westmorland Rev. W. Nicholls £5.00 William Nicholls was the Minister of High Chapel Congregational Church, Ravenstonedale, from 1869 to 1833, where he is now buried. He had a keen interest in local history, writing five books on various localities. This is his first book, reprinted from the original 1877 edition. Published by : The Book House Published date : 1996 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Marchon: The Whitehaven Chemical Works Alan W. Routledge £12.99 For more than half a century the tall chimneys of Marchon dominated the skyline above Whitehaven. Whilst some people may not have considered them pretty, to those who worked in the factory the steam and smoke pouring out of the chimneys was a welcome sight. It meant their jobs were safe and at the end of the week they would pick up a decent pay packet. Published by : Tempus Published date : 2005 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Moota - Camp 103: The Story of a Cumbrian Prisoner of War Camp Gloria Edwards £5.99 The story of Moota Prisoner of War Camp, and the men who lived there, is a part of West Cumbria's history. Many people may already have heard of the beautiful chapel and its artwork created by German POWs, but other aspects of life at the camp and the part it played in the life of the local area have been largely unexplored until now. Published by : Little Bird Publications Published date : 2005 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Parton: Party On D. Bradbury £3.99 This book, third in the series of Parton history books by D. Bradbury, attempts to give a flavour of village life from the 1920s to the 1970s, looking at one year from each decade. Published by : PastPresented Published date : 2004 Format : Paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Penrith & Eden: A Journey into the Past DVD Andrew Leitch £13.99 Travel back through the decades on an amazing journey of discovery to find out about Penrith and Eden in years gone by. Much rarely seen material captures the atmosphere of this unique area revealing how things have changed over the past two centuries. Published by : Andrew Leitch Published date : 2005 Format : DVD Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	Slate From Coniston Alastair Cameron £13.99 Second impression. A history of the Coniston slate industry, although the author makes no apologies for the fact that he occasionally strays from the topic of 'slate' to one of the village in general. The history of the industry is inseparable from the history of the village. The culture and personality of the village is as unique as the volcanic slate extracted from its hills. Published by : Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society Published date : 2005 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Coniston Railway Michael Andrews and Geoff Holme £7.95 This book is a revised and enlarged edition of the Cumbrian Railways Association's first book, originally published in 1985. It tells the story of the planning and building of the Consiton Railway, its late Victorian and Edwardian heyday as a branch of the Furness Railway, and its eventual demise under British Rail ownership as a result of competition from the motor car, the bus and the lorry. Published by : Cumbrian Railways Association Published date : 2005 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Garden at Levens Chris Crowder £25.00 The ancient topiary at Levens Hall in the Lake District is a wonder to behold. Drawing on the accounts of owners, stewards and gardeners who helped shape the garden, the author explains how through centuries of skilled care it preserved its heritage, withstanding the vagaries of fashion but evolving to suit the needs of the day. Published by : Frances Lincoln Published date : 2005 Format : Large hardback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Illustrated Guide to the Holiday Resorts on the Furness Railway (circa 1900) £17.99 This is the greatly awaited and lavishly illustrated facsimile of the classic guide, first published in 1900 by Furness Railway. Published by : Handstand Press Published date : November 2007 Format : 215mm x 278mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Lake District: The Story of Old Lakeland Andrew Leitch £13.99 The fascinating story of Lakeland in the old days, capturing the atmosphere of what life was like: the poverty, the packhorses and stagecoach and the coming of the railway. Published by : Andrew Leitch Published date : 2005 Format : DVD Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Military Airfields of Britain - Northern England Ken Delve £16.99 Later in World War Two hundreds of bombers left airfields in Yorkshire night after night on missions to Germany, but though the region's largest county dominates the story, this is by no means the full tale of Northern England's heritage. Published by : Crowood Published date : October 2006 Format : 165mm x 234mm large paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The North Pennines: Landscape and Legend Iain Brown £18.95 The North Pennines are one of our least well-known upland areas. Yet here are charming towns and villages, beautiful lakes and woodlands, spectacular waterfalls and wild hills. This fascinating landscape also reveals an area rich in people and legends - from artistic links with poets, painters and writers to the ghosts of reivers, drovers and lead miners of the past. Published by : Summary House Publications Published date : 2006 Format : Large Paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:

	The Stone Circles of Cumbria John Waterhouse £25.00 Megaliths hold a powerful fascination. Among the hills of the English Lake District are many prehistoric, megalithic monuments. Every year thousands of people visit the great stone circles of Castlerigg, but fewer manage to see the much larger circle of Long Meg and her Daughters, while very few indeed are aware that there are over fifty stone circles, some very difficult to find, in and around the Cumbrian fells. Published by : Phillimore Published date : 2004 Format : Large paperback. Click here to read the reviews Quantity: