HeyJaredHefted - Dispatches from Cumbria
Podcasts, news, views and long-form articles inspired by the landscapes, heritage, culture and people of Cumbria and the Lake District. From the team behind Countrystride and Inspired by Lakeland.
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Countrystride #168: Mardale – Flooding of a valley (opens the original)
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In the company of local historian and dialect champion Jean Scott-Smith, we set the historic scene on Mardale, cradled in the Far Eastern Fells and overlooked by a British fort, a Roman Road and Scandinavian shielings. Proceeding into the 18th century, Jean paints a picture of a bustling farmed valley, with rich dairy pastures and a steady flow of traders and packmen making their way over the passes of Nan Bield and Gatesgarth and down past High and Low Water.Recounting tales of the Kendal Arche
Forty Fells: Coniston Old Man (opens the original)
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Countrystride #167: The story of Cumbrian iron (opens the original)
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In the company of industrial history enthusiast Mark Hatton we begin our journey at Glen Mary below Tarn Hows, where we are introduced to the three ingredients that allowed Furness monks to first produce iron: expansive woodlands, fast-flowing rivers and rich deposits of local hematite.Noting clues of iron in the landscape – Red Screes, Red Pike, Red Tarn – we visit an oak-shaded glade that was once a charcoal-burners’ platform, where coppiced timber was piled high then baked to create the ‘rock
Countrystride #166: The real reivers – Hidden history of the Debatable Land (opens the original)
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In the company of author and academic Graham Robb we set out from Kershopefoot along the trackbed of the historic Waverley Line, taking in the landscape of the once-unique enclave between England and Scotland; an uninhabited ‘batable’ grazing land bounded by the rivers Liddel, Esk and Sark that formed a buffer zone between often warring nations.Stepping into the Scottish Borders, we discuss the popular perception of the ‘reiving’ families who lived around this anomalous territory – the Elliots,
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