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 ...

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 ...

If I’d known that The Trip, released last summer and now available on DVD, was a buddy movie I probably never would have rented it. But, of course, the title snagged me and I’m glad it did because ...

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 ...

Three fungi and a monad-like protozoan have been found living in the vegetative cells of Ceratium hirundinella (O. F. Mull.) Bergh. and C. furcoides (Levander) Langhans in Windermere, Esthwaite Water ...

What's the biggest thing you've ever built using toy bricks or blocks? This is a model of the famous English Lake District made from 200,000 pieces of Lego. The plastic landscape is 100 sq ft - to ...

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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 ...