Catherine,
I'm really glad you got back to me. Your earlier email got deleted by mistake
and I'd lost your address in an earlier crash.
Hiring a car is definitely the right move but you need to know that here we pay
our taxes as we drive! Petrol (gasoline) costs work out at about 8p/mile for a
small car and the government takes about 80% of that. Train fares can be really
silly prices so it might make good sense to hire when you leave London. Cars
are a liability and there's a £5 per day congestion charge in central London.
And parking doesn't come cheap.
Cumbria is a new county formed in 1974. It includes parts of the historic
counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and the northern bit of Lancashire. The
main road running north on the west side of the country is the M6. Close beside
it is the old A6. In Cunbria, the area to the west of the M6 is the Lake
District. It's a National Park, very beautiful, not to be missed, but full of 3
sorts of folk: serious walkers with boots that look used, trippers (who never
venture more than 50 yards from the road) and posers. The latter wear really
class walking gear but it's never been given a hard time! There's loads of
accomodation, Bed & breakfast being best value.
The southern access to the Lakes is from Junction 36 on the M6. Thirty miles
further north is Penrith and twenty miles north of Penrith is Carlisle. which
needed its fortifications is the days when we were constantly fighting the
scots.
Threkeld is 14 miles to the west of Penrith and just outside Keswick, one of
the main towns in the Lakes. It was the base for copper mining in Elizabethan
times. German miners were brought over to develop the industry as we needed the
copper to make bronze to make cannon to repel the Spanish. But after 1588, when
the bad weather, good luck and some good seamanship saw off the Armada, the
demand fell off.
Alston is 20 miles NE of Penrith and a good centre for the leadmining areas.
Coalcleugh, Nenthead, Garrigill and Killhope are all very near. It's lovely
country and not over-run with tourists like Windermere (in the Lakes).
I'll copy a map of the area and send it to you. The file will probably be about
1Mb.
I hope we can meet up in June. We live in West Yorkshire, in the Pennines, near
Halifax.
Happy New Year
Malcolm
Quoting Catherine Walker <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hello,
>
> I corresponded with you about a year ago. We are seriously planning our
> trip to England in June of this year.
> Part of our vacation will include Co. of Cumbria, specifically the area of
> Appleby in Westmoreland. We will probably start our trip in London and then
> take the train to Carlisle and hire a car and stay in Appleby. Do you know
> how far away that is from Threlkeld? I have been looking at websites for
> Nenthead and Kilihope Mines. The Walton name is on the Kilihope website.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Catherine Kent Walker
>
> .
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernard Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 3:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Vacation
>
>
> > Dear Catherine,
> >
> > I would suggest you contact the Threlkeld Mine & Quarry Museum at
> Threlkeld -
> > Ian & Jean Tyler - who I am sure would be pleased to assist your
> endeavours
> > via MOLES. Ian writes excellent books on Lake District mining, and I am
> sure
> > your ancestors will feature in them somewhere - the name Walton I have
> seen.
> >
> > Hope this is some use. Regards, Bernard.
> >
>
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