by Jan | May 21, 2020 | News item
St Andrew’s Church is set in a stunning location in Stonethwaite in the Borrowdale valley. It is a very simple, white rough-cast building with a roof of local slate. The monks of Furness Abbey developed mining and farming interests in the locality in medieval...
by Jan | May 10, 2020 | News item
This is the slate sign in the hamlet of Stonethwaite which was referred to in the previous post. We like walking from Rosthwaite up to the village of Stonethwaite and then up the left hand side of the beck and crossing over by the footbridge. The return to the hamlet...
by Jan | May 3, 2020 | News item
The hamlet of Stonethwaite lies in the Borrowdale valley close to the larger hamlet of Seatoller which is at the foot of the Honister Pass. It is a good starting point for walks further up the valley alongside Stonethwaite Beck. There is a campsite and also the...
by Jan | Apr 18, 2020 | News item
The Lake District is eerily quiet now. In normal times – they seem so long ago – we like to escape to the quiet of the Newlands valley and watch the many visitors to the area toiling up the busy route up Cat Bells. The hamlet of Little Town has been made...
by Jan | Apr 4, 2020 | News item
At the end of February – when there was significant snow on the high fells the ducks came back to visit the pond and check it out. We say they came back – last year we had a nest of duck eggs in the foliage on the edge of the car park – complete with...
