Exploring Cumbria – A Stroll across Moor Divock

Exploring Cumbria - A Stroll across Moor Divock

Today Robert Croser has brought me up Moor Divock to explore traces of the ancient world. Moor Divock is a featureless tract of fairly level land, 300 metres above sea level, forming part of Askham Fell, to the East of Ullswater. Dotted around the moor are many cairns and burial mounds, the most conspicuous being […]

Exploring Cumbria – Shap Stone Circle and Abbey

Exploring Cumbria - Shap Stone Circle and Abbey

Continuing my exploration of Cumbria with Robert Croser I am in Shap on the A6 to seek out a stone circle that Victorian engineers deemed unimportant when they built the railway. We also visit the magnificent ruins of Shap Abbey. PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are funded by people like you. If you […]

Exploring Cumbria – Lacy’s Caves and the Gypsum Mines

Exploring Cumbria - Lacy's Caves and the Gypsum Mines

I am back in Cumbria to explore more of the its secret historic delights and peculiar fancies in a short series of videos. This is the first hidden in the Eden Valley. I have joined up with local history enthusiast, Robert Croser, who in this episode takes me to Lacy’s caves, five chambered man-made caves […]