Love Lakes Heritage Explore Great Houses, Castles, Gardens and Cultural Attractions around Cumbria Heritage Past-Port @CLivingHeritage Cumbria’s Living Heritage cumbriaslivingheritage.co.uk Passport1 e.indd 1 01/03/2016 14:33 Heritage Past-Port @CLivingHeritage Cumbria’s Living Heritage cumbriaslivingheritage.co.uk Armitt Museum Askham Hall and Library Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: view a letter ‘written in the hand of God’; see discover how a 13th century, grade 1 listed Pele Tower photos of 7-foot snowdrifts and 10-foot dangling lives on, by providing luxury stays complete with spa icicles that brought Victorians fl ocking to The treatments and relaxation; get a feel for celebrations Lakes; discover the meaning of ‘mycology’; revel in held in an ancient oak-beamed party barn and stroll 23 works by Kurt Schwitters and explore the life of alongside a 230-ft long double herbaceous border, in Beatrix Potter. Don’t forget to take a peek at fi rst grade II listed gardens. Leave enough time to tuck into edition copies of Miss Potter’s “little” books! a Kitchen Garden Café delight! Brantwood Brockhole - The Lake District Visitor Centre Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: make a beeline for a Bee Penthouse; see 200 zip through the trees and take a Treetop Trek; British native herbs laid out as a medieval see views of the Langdales that frequent visitor, manuscript; revel in the same views of lake Beatrix Potter, enjoyed; discover trees and shrubs Coniston enjoyed by John Ruskin, and explore his fi rst planted by Arts & Craft gardener Mawson and life, works and home. Leave time to tread steps explore 10 exciting acres around the UK’s fi rst worked by 9th century Norse invaders, explore National Park centre. Decide whether to arrive by the “Zig Zaggy” and play ‘rock’ music on ringing Steamer, or jump in a kayak! stones. Passport1 e.indd 2 01/03/2016 14:34 Carlisle Cathedral Carlisle Museum of Military History Heritage Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: Past-Port hug a 900-year-old pillar; count the stars in the step into the shoes of soldiers from past and breath-taking ceiling; see England’s largest window present, discover the extraordinary feats of ordinary in the Flowing Decorated Gothic style (in the people; marvel at medals, be wowed by weapons, country’s second smallest cathedral,) spot the and travel to the trenches, to perhaps pen your own cumbriaslivingheritage.co.uk ‘green men’ and fi nd marks on pillars where weary letter home. Don’t forget to trace the war records monks fell asleep with their candles. Visit on a of one of your family forefathers, if you have basic Heritage Open Day and view a rare Tudor painted details to hand. ceiling and handmade Kings and Queens! Dalemain Mansion Dove Cottage & Historic Gardens Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: discover the Elizabethan past behind the Georgian tour Dove Cottage 125 years after it fi rst opened façade; learn of Dalemain’s Australian links; head to visitors; imagine the Wordsworths’ life in this to the Chinese Room and revel in the 18th century tiny cottage; hear why newspapers decorated hand-painted wallpaper and roam the 2013 Garden one room’s walls; roam a garden shaped by the of the Year. View the diary and portrait of Lady Anne Wordsworths’ “own hands” and fi nd out why eating Cliff ord and satisfy your sweet tooth with Dalemain’s porridge led to Sir Walter Scott’s famous window award-winning marmalade and the medieval escape. Pick out Wordsworth’s ice skates and tearoom’s treats. “green goggles” in the Wordsworth Museum. English Heritage English Heritage Brougham Castle Furness Abbey Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: picnic by a ruined early 13th century castle, in a go in search of medieval treasure and discover stunning riverside location and enjoy panoramic the famous crozier; see an impressive gemstone views of the Eden Valley; consider what Edward I ring once worn by a monk, and seek out rare would have thought when visiting in 1300; see the and remarkable stone effi gies. Speculate what impressive Tower of League and double gatehouse, happened on the day King Stephen founded and play I Spy as you explore the passageways this Abbey and give your opinion on the ornately and stairways. decorated chapter house. Passport1 e.indd 3 01/03/2016 14:34 English Heritage Holehird Gardens Stott Park Bobbin Mill Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: be whisked back in time to the 19th century; live revel in a cascade fed by streams on the Lakeland life like a wooden bobbin maker; marvel at how this fells; praise Himalayan Blue Poppies; discover mill made a quarter of a million bobbins a week and the four National Plant Collections of Astilbe, work out how it could have housed 250 workers. Meconopsis, Daboecia and Polystichum and take Refl ect how you might have felt if arriving here from the Hydrangea Walk. Don’t miss the spectacular a workhouse and buy a bobbin to take home as a Handkerchief Tree, children’s trails and make the reminder. most of the opportunity to relax in the 17-acre gardens nestled above glorious Windermere. Holker Hall & Hutton-in-the-Forest Gardens Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: see the microscope of a legendary mysogynist visit the Rococo-ceilinged Cupid Room and see who discovered nitric acid, explored hydrogen Playing Boys on the Cupid staircase; view the and calculated the earth’s density; track down the Mortlake tapestries and William Morris wallpapers; Regulator Clock and the Nursery Yacht and view learn of Hutton’s association with the Arthurian treasures by Van Dyck, Chippendale and Reynolds. legend of Sir Gawain and the Greene Knights and Head outside for incredible gardens, the 400-year- track down the ‘quarrelsome chairs’. Spot the old Holker Great Lime, a National Collection of 17th century dovecote, appreciate six centuries of Styracaceae and a labyrinth inspired by a Hindu architecture and perhaps even arrange a guided temple. walk with the gamekeeper. Keswick Museum Kirklinton Hall & Gardens Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: Play the musical stones in Britain’s fi rst Rock Band; discover the Faerie Glen at 17th century Kirklinton walk across the Lake District in 10 seconds; learn to and the ‘face’ of Faerie princess, Maelgwyn the draw like Wainwright in our exhibition; see fi ve top Fair; meet the Empress of Kirklinton in her Chinese Lakeland fells from our window; fi nd a fi sh left over Chippendale Pig House and take the delightful from the last ice age, a rare golden eagle and our woodland walk, crossing footbridges over formal 700-year-old cat! cascades. Make time to discover the 21 fruits of pommology, play croquet, head to Pell-Mell Allee and visit the Healing Herb Garden. Passport1 e.indd 4 01/03/2016 14:34 Lakeland Arts Lakeland Arts Abbot Hall Blackwell The Arts & Crafts House Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: enjoy one of Britain’s fi nest collections of Romney absorb the White Drawing Room’s shimmering beauty paintings; ponder the amazing inheritance quest of and mirror trickery and marvel at the elegance and Lady Anne Cliff ord, by viewing her ‘Great Picture’ craftsmanship within one of the best examples of the triptych, and browse exhibits from the 17th to 21st Arts and Crafts movement in the world. Take up an centuries. Note names like Kurt Schwitters, Ben and invitation to enter this stunning house to relax, soak up Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and wallow in the atmosphere and a magnifi cent lake view, and learn a unique and intimate Georgian ambience. about the people who made Blackwell their home. Lakeland Arts Lakeland Motor Museum of Museum Lakeland Life and Industry Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: step into an 18th century farmer’s kitchen parlour Snap John McGuinness’s Honda motorcycle; marvel and discover the use of the bacon settle; amble at a unique collection of historic motor cars and down a Victorian high street; view a piano believed become emotional over the tribute to speed legends to have belonged to Beatrix Potter and discover Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell. Be enthralled personal items which belonged to Swallows and by the industrial heritage of the Leven Valley and Amazons author, Arthur Ransome. Study a Ruskin enjoy the nostalgia created by a fascinating display Lace Bag, appreciate life in a bobbin factory, and of automobilia. Discover a microcosm of twentieth discover the importance of swill baskets. century life. Levens Hall and Mirehouse & Gardens Gardens Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: get a buzz from a clasp of interlocking bees removed explore Melvyn Bragg’s ‘Manor from Heaven’, take from Napoleon’s coach after Waterloo; discover the Terraced Poetry Walk or visit a bee-friendly the secrets of Morocco Ale and the 17th Century walled paradise, and discover the snuff garden and Radish Feast and marvel at incredible gardens and rhododendron tunnel. Allow the children to take to extraordinary topiary characters such as Queen The Steeplechase, Forest Castle, or Squirrel Island Elizabeth and her Maids of Honour, the King and for outdoor adventure, and enjoy a family nature trail Queen chess pieces and the Judge’s Wig. together. Keep an eye on the sky – you may just spot the iconic ospreys! Passport1 e.indd 5 01/03/2016 14:34 Muncaster Castle, National Trust Gardens, Hawk & Acorn Owl Centre Bank Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: explore 300 varieties of herbs and 100 varieties discover the prophesy surrounding King Henry VI’s of apple, visit the ancient fl our-grinding watermill, drinking bowl; learn how a Pennington killed a man working most weekend afternoons, and buzz around after ‘quarrelling about humming a tune’ and listen the teaching apiary like a busy bee.