Halloween preparations – Hesket Newmarket, Cumbria

Print This Post Print This Post


Hesket Newmarket Brewery van

Our adventures this week have taken us to a small village called Hesket Newmarket. You may remember we visited a place called Caldbeck a few weeks ago well, Hesket Newmarket is about 1.5 miles beyond this, down a narrow ‘B’ road. The village is stretched along the main through road and has a Post Office, [...]

Lochmaben in Scotland is our destination …

Print This Post Print This Post


Charlie stands on the path at Lochmaben Castle in Scotland

Scotland is our destination on this adventure and it is to the small town of Lochmaben where we end up. Our journey takes us up the new M6 extension through the area previously known as the Cumberland gap and onto the A74(m). We waited until the middle of the afternoon to venture out so the [...]

Mucky pups… in the Eden Valley – Cumbria

Print This Post Print This Post


Long Meg

Parking in one of the few parking spaces at the Long Meg druid circle just outside of Little Salkeld our day out started with a look around the collection of stones. Long meg and her daughters is a collection of some 69 stones with a commanding view over the Cumbrian fells. With a diameter spanning [...]

Get Adobe Flash player