Farm Life in the Lakeland Dales

Written by W R Mitchell

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Book condition

This book is brand new

Book details

Paperback:

102 pages

Publisher:

Dales Country

Language:

English

ISBN:

0946184623

Book description

2005: 1st: not stated

Fifty years ago, when the author first ventured into the Lake district, as Editor of the magazine cumbria, he was befriended by the farm folk who scratched a living against the backdrop of high fells. Most people were native born, socialising at Merry Neets, Tatie pot Suppers and Shepherds Meets. Stocks of herdwick sheep were heaf-going, remaiining on ground where they had been suckled.

This book is a poular account of how such a life evolved over the centuries, from the first settlers and the colonising Norsemen whose names for places and natural features are spread densley across the Lakeland map. the Dalesfolk were a race apart until, with the coming of the railways and tourism, the old isolation was lost…..

W R Mitchell

W.R. (Bill) Mitchell was born in Skipton in 1928. After gaining…

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Book tags

• Dales Country,
• Lake District,
• Local history