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 ...

LAKE DISTRICT, England — It wasn't the best day to plan a drive across Kirkstone Pass, the highest mountain pass open to motorists in the English Lake District. The clear robin's-egg-blue sky of the ...

• England's Largest This storybook realm of hills, stonewalled fields, forests, whitewashed cottages, and clear waters is England’s largest national park. In fact, the Lake District covers about one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...