Why do fell and trail-runners head into the toughest of landscapes on journeys of adventure, endurance, technical challenge and self-discovery?
In this visual celebration of two iconic mountain sports, photographer Danielle Ledbury talks with 28 athletes, from trailblazers like Joss Naylor and Steve Birkinshaw to those taking their first strides into the Cumbrian hills.
Their answers – often surprising, sometimes challenging, always candid – cover community, love, addiction, bereavement, passion, solitude, trauma, joy… and an abiding love of the Lake District.
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A collection of short stories from Booker nominated Cumbrian author Sarah Hall.
From the heathered fells and lowlands of Cumbria with their history of smouldering violence, to the speed and heat of summer London, to an eerily still lake in the Finnish wilderness, Sarah Hall evokes landscapes with extraordinary precision and grace. The characters within these territories are real-life survivors, but whether it’s a frustrated housewife seeking extreme experience or a young woman contemplating the death of her lover, dark devices and desires rise to the surface. And the human body, too – flawed, visceral, and full of emotional conflict – provides a sensuous frame for each unfolding drama. Uniquely disturbing and deeply erotic, this collection confirms Sarah Hall as one of the greatest writers of her generation.
In Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journey through life and death. Radical, charged with a transformative, elemental power, each of these stories invites us to stand at the very edge of our possible selves.
A Guardian, Financial Times and Irish Times Book of the Year
‘No one writes stories the way Hall does and quite possibly no one ever will. Astonishing, miraculous, a gift.’ Daisy Johnson
‘The queen of dark short fiction.’ Guardian
‘The best short story writer in Britain.’
These maps normally cover an area of about 18 miles by 12 miles and are especially good at showing railways, roads and canals, and at giving a broad view of a wider area. Each includes an introduction and a more detailed map of a small town or village.
This early One Inch Ordnance Survey map covers the Cumbrian Coast area from Silloth to Maryport, including both those towns. We have linked up the two maps for the area. Coverage stretches from Silloth southward to Camerton and Papcastle, and the railways are a major feature in the southern part of the map. On the reverse we include a detailed map of Fothergill and Risehow, showing the West Cumberland Chemical Works, Risehow Colliery and the northern end of Flimby, including Rye Hill and Pennygill Row.
It is not possible to list the many hamlets, farmsteads and other topographical features shown on these maps. However, you may find it useful if we list the towns and principal villages or church parishes that are included on this map – Allonby, Brigham, Broughton Moor, Camerton, Crosscanonby, Dearham, Dovenby, Ellenborough & Ewanrigg, Flimby, Great Broughton, Hayton & Mealo, Holme St Cuthbert, Maryport Netherhall, Oughterside & Allerby, Papcastle, Ribton, Seaton, Silloth, Tallentire.
When Thorneythwaite was sold in separate lots on 9th August, 2016 roughly a thousand years of discernible history of its existence as an independent fell farm came to an abrupt halt. A surprising amount of that history has been recorded.
It is there in the Norman documents of the 12th century, when it belonged to Alice de Rumilly of Skipton Castle; there in the chartularies of Fountains and Furness Abbeys to whom she gave all Borrowdale, Keswick and Crosthwaite Church, which she founded. It is there in the Great Deed of Borrowdale (1614); in the records of the German copper miners later that century; and as home also to many who toiled in the Graphite mines of Seathwaite and in the later development of Honister quarry and mine. Ian Hall was a teenager there in the 1960s and has sought here to put flesh on the skeleton provided by those records, mixing the ongoing saga of the forty generations who have called Thorneythwaite home with his memories of his own parents’ struggle to make a living on this harsh little fell farm. He is also the author of ‘Fisherground – Living the Dream’, a memoir of the last quarter of the 20th Century, when he and his wife Jennifer shared a fell farm with their good friends Geoff and Anne-Marie Wake.
This first new novel in two years from the Nation’s Favourite Storyteller is a sweeping story of love and rescue – an unforgettable journey to the Greek island of Ithaca, and back in time to World War Two… Australian-Greek girl Nandi travels to her ancestors’ home in Ithaca, and discovers – through a friendship with an extremely unusual flying fish – the extraordinary story of her great-aunt Elena; of how she fell in love, in the hardest of times, and how of how she became an unsung hero of World War Two. But Elena has gone missing, and Nandi has to find her.
In her search, she will discover that Elena was an even greater hero than she thought – and still is… Nandi’s story is a beautiful and inspiring tale of personal discovery, of love and place and belonging, threaded through with the quiet heroism of everyday people. Stunningly illustrated throughout by acclaimed artist George Butler, and full of magic, myth and mystery, it is a classic Morpurgo novel that will move and thrill every reader who loved Private Peaceful and War Horse, and combines all the hallmarks of this beloved Master Storyteller.
The Sarah Losh Journal publishes work on the Losh family, and on the church and village of Wreay.
The second volume contains the following articles: Sarah Losh, Wreay Church and other Buildings in Cumbria by Matthew Hyde; For Advancement of Learning: some aspects of the past provision of schooling for the children of Wreay by Adrian Allan; A Young Boy’s Memories of Wreay by Brian Hodgson; Notes on George Losh by Marie McCulloch; The Sun Dial at Wreay by Mark Clowes; Sarah Losh at the Ball by Stephen Matthews; Songs of Praise Factsheet: Programme 3 St Mary’s Church, Wreay Poetry by Alan Mottershead, Alan Forsyth, Stephen Matthews and Claire Delores Storr; Wreay Hall 1623-1919 by Ian Moonie; Wreay Chapel of Rest: Record of Remedial Work by Peter Strong; The People of Wreay by Stephen Matthews; Extracts from the Diary of James Losh by A.R. Davies; Images of Wreay by Claire Delores Storr.
Why does Cumbria produce such remarkable people? What inspired the visionary poet William Wordsworth, or cause the brilliant storytelling but tragic love affair of Beatrix Potter?
How did Cumbria’s challenging character trigger Fletcher Christian’s Mutiny on the Bounty, motivate the rebels who almost toppled Henry VIII or drive Maryport’s feuding Ismay family to build the Titanic – and sink it?
Drawing on research, letters, diaries and archaeology this book explores a 13,000-year timespan. It examines how the hauntingly beautiful Lake District, its pioneering Atlantic-facing origins and its rich Celtic culture helped forge some extraordinarily original people. This book suggests Cumbria’s distance from London, its deep artistic and religious traditions and its mountainous impregnability endowed Cumbrians with a distinctly different outlook to South-East England.
This is the story of how an extraordinary place made an exceptional people.
STOP PRESS Look out for Sarah Hall talking about Helm at an event in Tullie, Carlisle in September – full details to be announced!
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A wondrous, elemental novel from ‘a writer of show-stopping genius’ (Guardian). Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind – a subject of folklore and awe, who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the very dawn of time. Through the stories of those who’ve obsessed over this phenomenon, Helm’s extraordinary history is formed: the Neolithic tribe who tried to placate Helm, the Dark Age wizard priest who wanted to banish Helm, the Victorian steam engineer who attempted to capture Helm – and the farmer’s daughter who loved Helm.
But now Dr Selima Sutar, surrounded by infinite clouds and measuring instruments in her observation hut, fears human pollution is killing Helm. Rich, wild and vital, Helm is the story of a unique life force, and of a relationship: between nature and people, neither of whom can weather life without the other.
The Helm Wind is a named wind in Cumbria,[1] a strong north-easterly wind which blows down the south-west slope of Cross Fell. It is the only named wind in Britain, although many other mountain regions in Britain exhibit the same phenomenon when the weather conditions are favourable. It may take its name from the helmet or cap of cloud which forms above Cross Fell, known as the Helm Bar, since a line of clouds over the fells can predict and accompany a Helm.
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