ISBN: 0 300 09590 2
The well-loved Lake District makes up only part of a wild and spacious county, a poetic setting
for exceptionally rich Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon monuments. Carlisle Cathedral and
Lanercost Priory represent Northern Gothic, while castles such as Naworth and Appleby
developed into fine houses which, in their style and decoration, show a rugged regional
independence. Settlements range from the planned Stuart port of Whitehaven to the remote
market towns of Kirkby Stephen and Alston in the east, while the architecture of the main
villages and farmhouses is famous for its unaffected simplicity.
