A sullen sky hung over the land. The mountains had wrung most of the moisture from the clouds, but what little remained now fell on Scaleby. I met the Walkers are Welcome group at Crosby-on-Eden, but we would give Scaleby Castle a miss. Built by Robert de Tilliol in 1307, on land granted by Edward…
A Walk around Wordsworth’s Grasmere
Bring Wordsworth to life on this 5-mile walk through Wordsworth’s Grasmere, visiting the houses he lived in and the poems he wrote. Created from a brief to sell a literary walking holiday through Wordsworth’s Grasmere based at HF Holiday’s Coniston Hotel. A. HAMMERSCAR [Park GR NY 337053. Follow track NE then N to…
A Rose Tinted Spectacle
Anthony Salvin isn’t an instantly recognisable name. Yet many instantly recognisable buildings know the hand of Anthony Salvin. Between 1799 and 1881, Salvin became, according to the famous art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the most successful restorer and purveyor of castles in the 2nd half of the 19th Century. Salvin pioneered the Gothic revival in…
Lorna Graves’ Landscape
Discovering the art of Lorna Graves was like falling through a trapdoor into a subterranean grotto. Portals and doorways were early themes of the Cumbrian artist as she carved her artistic direction. It was a journey she described as an unveiling, and the veils were made of iron. Clare Crossman launched her memoir of Lorna,…