I had a fantastic day in the Caldebck Fells teaching a navigation course today. This area, to the north of Blencathra, is a great part of the Lake District to explore if you want to escape the crowds (we saw three other people all day) and enjoy views over to the Pennines and Scotland over the Solway Firth. It has not always been a quiet part of Cumbria though and there is still plenty of evidence of the extensive mining that went on. From medieval times right up into the twentieth century lead, copper and barytes were mined here and the sites of industrial archeology that have been left behind make perfect points to navigate to across the otherwise fairly featureless ground.
Jill
