Walk along many shopping streets in the UK and the good fashioned shop has been replaced by some out of town mega-store. In its place, an estate agent, charity shop or yet another mobile phone store. J.B.Banks and Son Ltd - Cockermouth ...
The third line into the Lakes was the only one to pass through the area; it ran from Cockermouth (which had been linked to Workington' since 1847) through Keswick to Penrith, and was opened in 1865. The main reason for building ... Once again an hotel was built near the station and tourism (of a more genteel nature than at Windermere) was quietly encouraged. However, Keswick never became a second Windermere, being so much further from the industrial towns of Lancashire. ...
Leave Cockermouth on the A5086 and take a left turn for Loweswater. The road follows the shore of the mile long lake and then on another half mile to the village of Loweswater, which is almost shadowed by Mellbreak St Kentigern's Church ...
