Blog & Updates From The Lake District | Inspired by Lakeland

William D. Shannon's new book, 'Cumbria – 1,000 years of maps', features more than 100 charts, surveys and maps from ten centuries of cartography. ...

Our first title of '22 is The Ullswater Walking Companion, featuring 20 ambles, rambles and scrambles in the iconic Ullswater valley. The third i...

if you were to press me on my first love - after the Lakes - then it's walking. It has been a mainstay of my life for the best part of two decades....

Locked down for the second time, and with most of our local stockists closed, we are busy at Inspired by Lakeland HQ sending out Christmas orders d...

The story of Through the Locking Glass is one of Cumbrian passion, creativity and inspiration in the toughest of times.  As lockdown was announced ...

Nearly five months into 2019 and the team at Inspired by Lakeland has never been busier... Not only do we have two major new books in production, w...

It has long been a bugbear of mine that the vast majority of books about the Lake District take themselves – and the area – too seriously. Whether ...

It was one of those moments of Cumbrian serendipity... Mark Richards and myself were in Threlkeld's fab community coffee shop at the tail end of la...