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Cumbria Blue Badge Tourist Guide. Providing Guided Tours for all of Cumbria and the Lake District.

31/10/2026

Not a room with a view but a view with a cow. As we both stand admiring the view up Windermere I reflect that maybe cows also appreciate a great view.

Luing cattle, brought in to create through their trampling a habitat that will encourage wildflower growth. All I can say is that they are also conossieurs of a good view as well.

Below on the Lake a group of tourists enjoy a cruise on Windermere, perhaps not realising that they themselves are part of the view!

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Windermere Lake Cruises

12/10/2026

It seems that however far I wander from Cumbria, something from home always finds me…

I’m currently away from the Lake District, walking the St Cuthbert’s Way, and today in Jedburgh I came across another familiar Cumbrian connection.

In 1803 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy passed through Jedburgh during their celebrated tour of Scotland. They stayed here with Nelly Mitchel, where they were visited by the young Walter Scott, who read to them from his then unpublished The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

Dorothy, characteristically, recorded what she saw in considerable detail. Jedburgh Abbey did not entirely impress her. Comparing it unfavourably with Melrose, she wrote:

“The kirk is, as at Melrose, within the walls of a conventual church, but the ruin is much less beautiful.”

But what really caught her attention was something rather more mundane. She was distinctly unimpressed to find local women spreading their washing over the flat tombstones and beating it with a wooden roller, describing it as:

“One most indecent practice…”

223 years later, it is rather pleasing to encounter William and Dorothy again, a long way from Grasmere, while following another historic route through the Scottish Borders.

Cumbria has a habit of following me!

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17/06/2026

Step into the world of the TV series 'The Other Bennet Sister' in our latest blog.

17/06/2026

Today is National Thank a Teacher Day — a chance to remember the teachers who encouraged, inspired or quietly changed the direction of our lives.
One such teacher was the Reverend William Taylor, headmaster of Hawkshead Grammar School in the 1780s. Among his pupils was a young William Wordsworth, who later remembered him in his autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’ as, “An honoured teacher of my youth”

Taylor encouraged Wordsworth not only to read poetry, but to write it. William Taylor died tragically young, aged just 32, and is buried at Cartmel Priory. Eight years later, Wordsworth visited his grave and recalled the teacher who had helped him begin as a poet. This quiet but important story was recently marked at Cartmel Priory with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque by Professor Stephen Gill, one of the leading Wordsworth scholars and Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford.

It is a lovely reminder that even the greatest writers do not emerge in isolation. Somewhere near the beginning, there is often a teacher.

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Hawkshead Grammar School Museum
Cartmel Priory

22/05/2026

There is never a bad time to visit Cumbria, but if gardens are your thing then May is the perfect time for Cumbria and the Lake District. The Azaleas and Rhodedendrons are outstanding and the Meconopsis Blue Himalayan Poppies are in their prime as well.

22/05/2026

Cumbria Blue Badge Tourist Guide, Jeff Appleyard, takes a look at the legacy of the Cavendish family.

19/01/2026

When away from the Lake District I always seem to stumble upon a Lake District link. This time at St Mary Abbotts Church, Kensington. Built in 1872 to a design by George Gilbert Scott, (who co-incidentally also designed St Mary’s Church in Ambleside). It was the parish church of probably the best known Lake District resident, Beatrix Potter and it was here in 1913 that she married William Heelis.

The church claims to have the tallest church spire in London and is classed as a Victorian gothic masterpiece. Lovely and quiet and contemplative when I visited. Well recommended if you are in Kensington, it’s just a short walk from High St Kensington Tube station.

15/11/2025

Great day at Forty Farms at Rheged bringing together Cumbria‘s innovative producers - butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, brewer, winemaker, chews makers, veg growers, publishers, weavers, handbag makers, chocolatiers, cake bakers, honey producers all from Cumbria suppliers using Cumbria produce just a few of the things I bought

15/10/2025

Amazing to see the Flookburgh Regalia including the 1630s sword and 1664 Charter at St John the Baptist church Flookburgh to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the building of this beautiful Early English style Church.

01/09/2025

Great to see some Cumbria / Lake District legends on my wander through London’s (Southwark) Herdwick lamb and Cumbrian Chicken. Plus Sticky Toffee Pudding (which Cumbria can lay claim to)

… and then on a wander later the outstanding Shap Red Granite, unmistakeable.

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