Little Salkeld Watermill, Cumbria



 

 

I've been buying organic flour ground here for decades, with the occasional visit to eat at the café, so I was concerned to read it was on the market. It's a fine working mill in a delightful setting, and needs to continue to work. The owners, Nick and Ana, have decided to retire, and enjoy more time with family and friends.

 

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34429204.html

 

I wish them well, and I hope the planned community buy out goes ahead.

 

http://www.edenvalleywatermill.org.uk/

 

http://organicmill.co.uk/node/186

 

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Pictures taken 2007 and 2008, I think one at least at SPAB Mills Open Day.

 

http://organicmill.co.uk/history

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ways in: Caldbeck, Cumbria

I haven't updated this blog in a long time. I thought I would use it occasionally to post a few of my vast collection of photographs. 

Taken in 2004 but I doubt there's been a great deal of change! Clicking on photos should enlarge. 

Three 'ways in'  in Caldbeck, Cumbria. Of particular interest in the first picture is that the keystone is fake... that's all carved from one piece of stone. 

Caldbeck is also the place where John Peel of the famous song is buried, in St Kentigern's churchyard.

D'YE KEN JOHN PEEL, Caldbeck, Cumbria. (See comments box for story) - 

 http://panoramio.com/photo/64294746

Further photos and information:

http://www.visitcumbria.com/car/caldbeck/

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Death by shooting... and a Lorimer church

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Plumpton, a small village in Cumbria, has this intriguing memorial stone set in the wall. I took this pic in 2005, when it was in a field wall. The field has since been built over with a new small housing estate but the memorial still stands.

Here is the history of the memorial and the tragic shooting of Constable Joseph Byrnes by "three hardened London criminals" in 1885:

http://www.plumptonvillage.co.uk/history1.html

Also a surprise is the local church, a small gem by Lorimer built in 1907. It was supposed to have been larger but the benefactor ran out of cash.

http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/plumpton-wall-st-john-the-evangelists-church.htm

Internally it is very finely crafted and certainly worthy of a visit:

The Church of St John the Evangelist at Plumpton Wall is a good modern (1907) building by Sir Robert Lorimer, with sharply battered walls, and a pele-like tower. The interior furnishings, and the windows by William Morris & Co and Powells of Whitefriars, are of a uniformily high standard.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpton,_Cumbria