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Acorn Bank is a pleasant place for a quiet afternoon
- Adding to the 'Bits and Bats' Close to the village of Temple Sowerby, in between Appleby and Penrith, is the Acorn Bank house and estate. Nowadays it is owned by the National Trust. It has delightful woodland walks plus a reconditioned operational watermill. At the reception area in the house visitors are able to purchase flour ground in the mill. At the opposite end of the estate are a few ruins of a small-scale gypsum mine, a reminder of just one of the extractive industries that supported the local people well before the holidaymakers came, and in fact even today provides employment in this area of the Eden Valley. Near the house is a delightful walled garden and an apple orchard. For many visitors, however, the top attraction is the remarkable herb garden. The Acorn Bank garden has in excess of 250 varieties of both culinary and medicinal herbs. My aim on this site is to keep posting items on a wide variety of different themes rather than what people very often do, that is to keep all the content very closely related. So don't be surprised if today's post is vastly different from the previous one, and if the next post seems to have absolutely no connection with anything I've writtent before. It's the intended "nature of the beast". So off we go - Bank, Trust, Valley, District,
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Merlins Love the Dales and Moors of Yorkshire
A MerlinDendroica cerulea / Foter / CC BY
Recently in the Eden Valley I spotted a bird of prey, a large buzzard hovering and then sweeping away over the fields to the left. It was splendid to watch.
I'm not an expert on birds, and don't even own a pair of binoculars apart from one that came as a free gift with a membership (was it the National Trust?) a year or two ago. Having said that I do like to hear of rare species of birds being spotted, and of dwindling bird populations reviving. From time to time I've commented on various blogs about eagle owls, ospreys and red kites.
Today, though, it was good to read some good news about a much smaller bird of prey, the merlin.
"Britain's smallest birds of prey are flying in to nest on Yorkshire grouse moors which have helped stave off their downfall. A new study commissioned by the Moorland Association has found dramatic gains in merlin populations on globally recognised heather moorland managed by gamekeepers for wild red grouse like those found in the Dales, Nidderdale and the North York Moors."
Read more at the Yorkshire Post
This has reminded me that I still have some work to do on a site I had originally intended to launch last year. It's called "Birds in Books". Checking back on it I find that I did let it loose on the world but did not finish adding all the pages that I intended. There is, though, a splendid book from the RSPB on British birds of prey. Take a look.
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Seventy-five years of Dalesman
'The Dalesman', the magazine of the Yorkshire Dales, deserves many congratulations. The magazine launched occurred just a few months before the outbreak of WW2 and might be expected to have disappeared without trace. But not 'The Dalesman'. It's still going strong, having survived not only the war but successive waves of change in people's reading habits. Well done! May the next 75 years continue the magazine's success.
Celebrating 75 years of Dalesman
The Queen and Prime Minister have sent messages of congratulations to the Dalesman magazine, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this April.
Read the full story
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Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells by Alfred Wainwright - Adding to the 'Bits and Bats'
My aim on this site is to keep posting items on a wide variety of different themes rather than what people very often do, that is to keep all the content very closely related. So don’t be surprised if today’s post is vastly different from the previous one, and if the next post seems to have absolutely no connection with anything I’ve writtent before. It’s the intended “nature of the beast”.
So off we go - Ever since I started my online bookshop at TheLakeDistrict.inBooks.co uk I have been selling copies of the Pictorial Guides. Consistently over the years they have been among the most popular titles, both in their original format and also the second revised edition. In fact the product heading my statistics with the highest number sold is the Wainwright Guides revised edition, not as a single title, but the full boxed set. I’ve sold more of these than any other single item. In fact they have been so popular that some time ago I created a special site devoted specifically to them: The Wainwright Guides
Now it appears that there’s going to be a further revision. It will take several years as every one of Wainwright’s routes up every mountain has to be checked carefully for changes. I suppose my initial thought about this was, “Help”, no-one’s going to be buying the current edition now.
However, I don’t think that will happen, simply because if you’re going to take a Lake District walking holiday this year you need your Wainwright Guide now, not in three years time. And when you’ve become so hooked on Lakeland fellwalking that you come back again and again you’ll have given it so much use that you’ll be ready for a fresh copy by the time the 3rd edition arrives on the scene.
, # Lake District, # Wainwright Guides, # Wainwright boxed set
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Ghostly sights at Durham Castle
Surprising, isn't it, what a Lumiere display can trigger.
A ghostly apparition has appeared above Durham Castle – reviving memories of last year’s Lumiere light spectacular. The Northern Echo
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Farmer and sheepdog end up in Ullswater
This story shows that even experienced farmers and their sheepdogs can sometimes get into trouble, which means the rest of us should be doubly cautious. It also once again highlights the services of Mountain Rescue teams.
"Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called by the police to go to the assistance of a local farmer who's trusty Collie whilst out gathering sheep had run over the edge of a craggy outcrop."
The post Farmer and sheepdog in Ullswater cliff plunge first appeared on Cumbria Crack. Click for more of the story.
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Lake District People - Beatrix Potter
My entry today is about the popular children's writer, Beatrix Potter, author of the Peter Rabbit tales and more. She came to know the Lake District as a child visiting with her parents on holiday. Lake District walks were her great pleasure. She fell in love with the Cumbrian countryside, and as the Beatrix Potter stories started to become well known and she began to prosper as a writer she bought a property which eventually became her main home - Hill Top Farm, now in the care of the National trust. In early life she had fallen in love with her publisher. They became secretly engaged but he died at a young age before they could be married. Many years later she married William Heelis, a country lawyer. Nowadays what was his office in Hawkshead is also a National Trust property operating as the Beatrix Potter Gallery. Many of her watercolours and sketches, originally produced for her books, are on display there. Other highlights of the gallery's displays are items relating to the film starting Renne Zellwegger, 'Miss Potter'. She was an astute business woman. Not only the Beatrix Potter books but many other related products added to her wealth, much of which was put to use in purchasing land in the Lake District for conservation purposes. and especially to protect the traditional hill farming way of life and the area's distinctive Herdwick sheep. The many books by Beatrix Potter are today popular around the world as is confirmed by the great numbers of international visitors who each year flock to see her old farmhouse. The gift of a Beatrix Potter complete collection has become a treasured possession of thousand, children, teenagers and adults alike. And it's not only books Don't miss the National Trust's two Beatrix Potter attractions when you're in the Lake District. Hill Top and the Gallery in Hawkshead well deserve a visit. Potter, # Lake District, # Hill Top, # Cumbria, # Hawkshead
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Peaceful Loweswater in the English Lake District
Of all the lakes in the National Park Loweswater is probably one of the least well known, Allong with with the better known Buttermere and Crummock Water it feeds the River Cocker which a few miles downstream merges with the Derwent. Mellbreak is the mountain that towers over the eastern end of the Loweswater. Carling Knott and Burnbank Fell rise above its southern shore. However, at the lake’s western end the land becomes more gently undulating and pastoral.
Loweswater is very small, even less in area than Rydal Water, being only about one mile long. The National Trust owns both the lake and much of the land around it, just as it does in the rest of the Buttermere valley. They do permit rowing boats, and permits can be obtained for fishing. Most people, however, are more interested in the walking opportunities and there is a nice walk with a few possible variants that circuits the lake.
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A First Post
This Tumblr blog is likely to see items about a variety of things (i.e. bits and bats) mostly but not inevitably British (hence the britbitsandbats). They could be about gardens and gardening, fell walking in the Lake District, books about stately homes and medieval castles, or anything else that catches my attention.
Off we go!
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