Blog & Updates From The Lake District | Inspired by Lakeland

In common with many indie businesses this year, we're letting Black Friday pass us by. But we did want to do something to celebrate the coming fe...

Here at Inspired by Lakeland, three things we love are books, Christmas... and the Lake District. So working on our latest book - A Lake District C...

The rich heritage of literature in Ambleside is celebrated in our second new walking guidebook of 2021, available for pre-order from today. The A...

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 ...

On 23 March, 2020 prime minister Boris Johnson announced lockdown measures in response to Covid-19... ...and suddenly, overnight, everything change...

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...

For the last 18-or-so months I've been working on a new book that combines my passion for Lakeland with my love of maps, graphic design and infogra...

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...

Pretty much every minute that's not spent working on new books or gifts you'll find me out on the fells.I've loved walking, and specifically walkin...