CUMBRIA TOURIST GUIDES WELCOME NEW BLUE BADGE GUIDE COURSE

The Blue Badge is the internationally recognised benchmark of excellence in tourist guiding.  Cumbria Tourist Guides www.cumbriatouristguides.co.uk is the Association of Professional Tourist Guides in Cumbria and Lake District National Park.

The course is wel....Read More

3000 new sites of ancient civilisation uncovered in Duddon Valley

 ARCHAEOLOGISTS in the Duddon Valley have uncovered over 3,000 previously unrecorded historic sites after a four-year survey of the area.

The Duddon Valley Local History Group, in partnership with the Lake District National Park Authority, found ring-c....Read More

AMAZING FINDS AT CARLISLE DIG REVEALED AFTER A DECADE
The findings of an internationally important archaeological dig have been revealed after more than 10 years. The dig, which took place in the grounds of Carlisle Castle in 1999, uncovered 80,000 Roman artefacts and gave a glimpse into what life was like almost 2,000 yea....Read More

BLUE BADGE GUIDES FROM CUMBRIA GAIN HADRIAN’S WALL ENDORSEMENT

Four Blue Badge Guides from Cumbria who are all members of Cumbria Tourist Guides www.cumbriatouristguides.co.uk  -

Alan Heppenstall, Ian Jones, Tom McCafferty and Chris Wright

have been successful in gaining a new qualification, an Endorsement fro....Read More

Environment honour for Birdoswald Roman fort team

Birdoswald Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Cumbria has picked up another accolade for environmental excellence.

It is returning to traditional ploughing methods to create a wildflower meadow for visitors. The site was given a silver award from the Cumbria Business Enviro....Read More

LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS is a massive Bronze Age circle just north of Penrith. It is the third largest stone circle in the British Isles, and the sixth largest overall in the world.

It's thought that the circle originally consisted of 70 stones, however today there are only 59 ....Read More

Make-over for Jeremy Fisher’s home

Esthwaite Water, which was immortalised as the home of Beatrix Potter’s Jeremy Fisher, is to be returned to a more natural state, more than 100 years after the children’s tale was first published.

As part of the Windermere Catchment restoration programmed, the fish cages at Hawkshead T....Read More

ONE OF THE TOP 10 PLACES IN THE WORLD TO VISIT

The Lake District has been named one of the top 10 places to visit in the world by publishers the Lonely Planet and the only one in the UK.

The Lake District was chosen ahead of other regions in the UK because it "sums up all that's green, great and grand about the English landscape".