To be both local and global, embedded in the surrounding community but also having a reach and impact worldwide, is an aspiration shared by most arts institutions. But few have achieved this aim as ...

AT the opening of the present century, the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmoreland was groaned over by some residents as fast losing its simplicity. The poet Gray had been the first to describe ...

There’s a theme to Millfield Construction Co.’s new Windermere upscale duplex and townhouse community. “The exterior design is built to emulate the English Lake District,” said co-listing agent ...

The Lake District has been named as a World Heritage Site, Unesco has announced. The region, in north-west England, joins sites including the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon and Stonehenge on the ...

I was next served. “A pint of cider with no head,” says I. I’m not sure if the subtext was read but it certainly saved me a couple of awkward minutes and the proprietor a bucket load of sloppage. The ...

Rain pelted the old sash windows like bullets as we sat by the fire at the 17th-century Burnthwaite Farm in Wasdale, a remote valley in northwest England. My wife, Katy, and I sought to complete the ...

IT is perhaps surprising that a “Flora” of the Lake district has not before been issued, considering the large number of botanists who have yearly rambled over its fells and dales. It has been left to ...

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The Lake District has been named as a World Heritage Site, Unesco announced today. The region, in north-west England, joins sites including the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon and Stonehenge on the ...