This ancient medieval village in Cumbria is near the home of famous children’s writer Beatrix Potter. In fact, there’s a wonderful gallery here with an exhibition of a selection of Beatrix Potter’s original drawings and illustrations. Cars are banned from the village, so you can saunter th...
In Manchester, Matt Sourby, 18, from Cumbria, toldThe Guardian newspaper, "This is our future, and this is making a difference. The government has to listen. I feel incredibly powerful just being here." In London, young people protested in Parliament Square, outside the Houses of ...
Head to one of the most isolated and wildest parts of the Aberdeenshire coast for this next UK ghost town. Rattray was a burgh inScotlandthat had been settled as far back as 4,000 BC. Mary Queen of Scots named it a Royal Burgh in 1563 to settle land disputes between two opposing Earl...
rule back into modern-day Wales and western extremities of England, notablyCornwallandCumbria. Others emigrated across the channel to modern-day Brittany, thus giving it its name and language (Breton). But many of the Romano-British remained in and were assimilated into the newly "English" ...
A particular form of the The Loyal Toast is still in regular local use: 'The Queen, the Duke of Lancaster'. Environs and divisions The ceremonial county currently borders on Cumbria, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, and the metropolitan counties of Greater Manchester, and Merseyside; and conta...
Northumberland is a traditional, ceremonial and administrative county in northernEngland. The ceremonial county bordersCumbriato the west,County Durhamto the south andTyne and Wearto the south east, as well as having a border with the Scottish Borders council area to the north, and nearly eighty ...