Countrystride

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Subscribers: 35
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 150

Hannah Beresford
 Sep 16, 2024
a really interesting podcast about nature and history of Cumbria. Great topics and rhythm.

Alice
 Jun 23, 2021

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A celebration of the landscapes, culture, heritage and people of Cumbria and the Lake District.

Episode Date
That's all for now: By Styhead Tarn
May 16, 2025
#149: Hostelling in the Lakes
Apr 25, 2025
#148: Tom Stephenson and Thomas Arthur Leonard: Footsteps to the Lakes
Apr 12, 2025
#147: Last of its kind – Eskdale Mill
Mar 28, 2025
#146: The lead mines of Nenthead
Mar 15, 2025
#145: The Westmorland Dales – A century of farming memories
Feb 28, 2025
#144: Gavin Capstick – New CEO of the Lake District National Park
Feb 14, 2025
#143: Robert Southey – The neglected Lake Poet
Jan 17, 2025
#142: Review of 2024
Dec 30, 2024
#141: A Cumbrian Christmas Cracker
Dec 23, 2024
#140: The owls of Grasmere, with Polly Atkin
Dec 20, 2024
#139: Gowbarrow Fell with Fix the Fells
Dec 01, 2024
#138: Running int' fells - A brief history of fell-running, with Peter Todhunter
Nov 16, 2024
#137: Voices from the changing commons
Nov 01, 2024
#136: Rebecca Smith in Grizedale – Lives of the working class countryside
Oct 19, 2024
#135: Phoebe Smith – Love, loss and life on Britain's ancient paths
Oct 11, 2024
#134: The Scafells – Hidden views and curious histories
Sep 27, 2024
#133: Whitehaven - A remarkable history
Sep 14, 2024
#132: Cumbria – 1,000 years of maps
Sep 01, 2024
#131: The Atlantic rainforests of Borrowdale
Aug 16, 2024
#130: Goldscope – The wealth of Newlands
Aug 02, 2024
#129: Loughrigg Fell: Tales of a small mountain
Jul 19, 2024
#128: The lost history of Brampton coal
Jul 05, 2024
#127: Matt Staniek: Saving Windermere
Jun 21, 2024
#126: Pubs of Cumbria: When communities save their pubs
Jun 08, 2024
#125: Nature friendly farming champion: James Robinson from Strickley
May 24, 2024
124: 778 ascents of Helvellyn, with fell top assessor Jon Bennett
May 06, 2024
123: Barrow-in-Furness – A tale of iron and ships, hair and shops
Apr 19, 2024
#122: Limestone of the Westmorland Dales
Apr 05, 2024
121: A history of paper-making on the River Kent
Mar 23, 2024
120: A history of boating on Windermere
Mar 09, 2024
119: The birth of Quakerism in Cumbria
Feb 23, 2024
118: James Forrest - Record-breaking round of the 214
Feb 09, 2024
#117: Above Great Moss: Stone axes of the earliest settlers
Jan 19, 2024
Countrystride #116: Review of 2023
Dec 30, 2023
Countrystride #115: A Cumbrian Christmas feast - With Helen Rebanks and Ivan Day
Dec 19, 2023
Countrystride #114: Fell Foodie - A feast on Silver How
Dec 08, 2023
Countrystride #113: Why we Run - Fell and trail running in the Lake District
Nov 24, 2023
Countrystride #112: Melvyn Bragg - Back in the Day
Nov 10, 2023
Countrystride #111: The Herdwick, with Will Rawling
Oct 13, 2023
Countrystride #110: Eliza Lynn Linton and The Lake Country
Sep 29, 2023
Countrystride #109: Aira Force - Lakeland pleasure ground
Sep 16, 2023
Countrystride #108: To the Lakes! The early days of tourism
Sep 02, 2023
Countrystride #107: Tales from Little Langdale
Aug 11, 2023
Countrystride #106: The lichens of Borrowdale
Jul 21, 2023
Countrystride #105: The Old Man and the slate
Jun 30, 2023
Countrystride #104: Eskdale - Living the Fisherground dream
Jun 16, 2023
Countrystride #103: Ambleside - A town through time
Jun 03, 2023
Countrystride #102: A Coast to Coast love affair, with Debbie North
May 12, 2023
Countrystride #101: The Yellow Earl and Lowther Castle
Apr 28, 2023
Countrystride #100: Why we love the Lakes
Apr 14, 2023
Countrystride #99: PEAT, POWER & THE PUBLIC – Caring for Watendlath
Mar 31, 2023
Countrystride #98: Askham – A vernacular celebration
Mar 10, 2023
Countrystride #97: Townend – A Troutbeck farming dynasty
Feb 17, 2023
Countrystride #96: Eric Robson – Wasdale, Wainwright, and a champion of Cumbria
Jan 27, 2023
Countrystride #95: Catbells & Hugh Walpole
Jan 13, 2023
Countrystride #94: Review of 2022
Dec 30, 2022
Countrystride #93: A Grasmere Gingerbread Christmas
Dec 16, 2022
Countrystride #92: Dentdale and The Dales High Way
Dec 02, 2022
Countrystride #91: Geology of the Lake District
Nov 18, 2022
Countrystride #90: The VIKINGS in Cumbria
Oct 28, 2022
Countrystride #89: Steve Birkinshaw – Smashing the 214
Oct 14, 2022
Countrystride #88: Forty Farms – Food and nature at Low Sizergh Farm
Sep 23, 2022
Countrystride #87: Trees in the age of the Romantics
Sep 04, 2022
Countrystride #86: Beatrix Potter
Aug 19, 2022
Countrystride #85: COPPERMINES VALLEY - Landscape legacy of audacious ambition
Jul 29, 2022
Countrystride #84: Latrigg - with Friends of the Lake District
Jul 15, 2022
Countrystride #83: Alston & Isaac’s Tea Trail
Jul 04, 2022
Countrystride #82: Dry-stone walling
Jun 10, 2022
Countrystride #81: Cumbrian dialect
May 20, 2022
Countrystride #80: ILLGILL HEAD - In search of the sublime
May 06, 2022
Countrystride #79: Arthur Ransome - Life, loves & literature
Apr 18, 2022
Countrystride #78: The Carlisle-Settle line & springtime in Eden
Apr 01, 2022
Countrystride #77: Fell ponies – On Roundthwaite Common with Libby Robinson
Mar 18, 2022
Countrystride #76: Wild Fell – Restoring Haweswater, with Lee Schofield
Mar 04, 2022
COUNTRYSTRIDE #75: The battle to save Ullswater
Feb 20, 2022
Countrystride #74: Railways of Cumbria
Feb 04, 2022
Countrystride #73: Millican Dalton - ’Caveman of Borrowdale’
Jan 21, 2022
Countrystride #72: Review of 2021
Dec 31, 2021
Countrystride #71: A Lake District Christmas
Dec 16, 2021
Countrystride #70: Caldbeck - A community through time
Dec 10, 2021
Countrystride #69: Blencathra with Andy Airey
Nov 26, 2021
Countrystride #68: Richard Leafe - The National Park at 70
Nov 12, 2021
Countrystride #67: Ghosts on the coast
Oct 29, 2021
Countrystride#66: Eskdale - Rain & recollections
Oct 15, 2021
Countrystride #65: The passionate sisterhood - Sisters and wives of the Lake Poets
Oct 01, 2021
Countrystride #64: Joss Naylor
Sep 17, 2021
Countrystride #63: Danny Teasdale - Ullswater after the storm
Sep 03, 2021
Countrystride #62: GRANGE-OVER-SANDS & Hampsfell
Aug 20, 2021
Countrystride #61: Norman Nicholson - Son of Millom
Aug 06, 2021
Countrystride #60: Wad - The wealth of Borrowdale
Jul 23, 2021
Countrystride #59: Rural visionary - John Dunning in the Westmorland Dales
Jul 09, 2021
Countrystride #58: Swaledale - Meadows & mines
Jun 25, 2021
Countrystride #57: Helvellyn
Jun 18, 2021
Countrystride #56: Life in the woods - Working the Rusland rainforests
May 28, 2021
Countrystride 55: Threlkeld - A story of stone & steam
May 21, 2021
Countrystride #54: Damsons of the Lyth Valley
May 07, 2021
Countrystride #53: The lost history of hill farming
Apr 26, 2021
Countrystride #52: Cumbria Way with Paddy Dillon
Apr 05, 2021
Countrystride #51: Skiddaw House - Loneliest house in England
Mar 19, 2021
Countrystride #50: The young people of Cumbria
Mar 06, 2021
Countrystride #49: Wainwright on Haystacks - An anniversary retrospective
Feb 19, 2021
Countrystride #48: Hadrian's Wall
Feb 08, 2021
Countrystride #47: Lakeland pilgrims
Jan 22, 2021
Countrystride #46: Cumbria in a campervan
Jan 17, 2021
Countrystride #45: Review of 2020
Dec 28, 2020
Countrystride #44: Christmas past - A Wetheral wander
Dec 21, 2020
Countrystride #43: Shap & The Postman's Path
Dec 10, 2020
Countrystride #42: Cumbria on film
Nov 27, 2020
Countrystride #41: Harriet Martineau - The roving Laker
Nov 13, 2020
Countrystride #40: Bill Lloyd - Into the woods
Oct 30, 2020
Countrystride #39: Thirlmere - and the flooding of a valley
Oct 16, 2020
Countrystride #38: James Rebanks - English Pastoral
Oct 07, 2020
Countrystride #37: Hardwicke Rawnsley - Lakeland champion
Sep 11, 2020
Countrystride #36: A Walney Wander
Aug 28, 2020
Countrystride #35: The children's literature of Lakeland
Aug 14, 2020
Countrystride #34: Caring for the commons- A view from Newlands
Jul 31, 2020
Countrystride #33: A brief history of Cumbria
Jul 17, 2020
Countrystride #32: Lady Anne Clifford - First lady of Westmorland
Jun 28, 2020
Countrystride #31: Cumbrian folk music and the Back o'Skiddaw
May 29, 2020
Countrystride #30: Buttermere - Tales from the secret valley
Apr 30, 2020
Countrystride #29: Dorothy Wordsworth & women walking pioneers
Apr 09, 2020
Countrystride #28: Future farming – Six generations working the land
Mar 18, 2020
Countrystride #27: Bill Birkett - Lakeland legend in Langdale
Mar 02, 2020
Countrystride #26: Piers Gill - A winter's ascent with Mountain Rescue
Feb 16, 2020
Countrystride #25: Smugglers, bombs and Plague Dogs - A walk on Wetherlam
Jan 17, 2020
Countrystride #24: Review of 2019 & AW's lost broadcast
Dec 30, 2019
Countrystride #23: West Coast Christmas - Voices from the past
Dec 13, 2019
Countrystride #22: Lost Words - Past and future in the woods of Wreay
Nov 21, 2019
Countrystride #21: Great Gable - Remembrance Sunday
Nov 11, 2019
Countrystride #20: Upper Eden - The fight to roam, with Kate Ashbrook
Oct 17, 2019
Countrystride #19: Pike O’Stickle - 50 years on the fells
Oct 01, 2019
Countrystride #18: The Pennine Way - Creation of a long, green trail
Sep 11, 2019
Countrystride #17: Beda Fell - with environmental campaigner Amy Bray
Aug 27, 2019
Countrystride #16: The Dales Way at 50 - A walk down Dentdale
Aug 11, 2019
Countrystride #15: John Ruskin - The Coniston visionary
Jul 05, 2019
Countrystride #14: A Pennine Journey - Life-changing walks
May 29, 2019
Countrystride #13: The Solway Coast - Wetlands, birdsong and lost lines
Apr 28, 2019
Countrystride #12: Great Langdale - A heritage landscape
Apr 12, 2019
Countrystride #11: High Stile – and the Buttermere skyline
Mar 15, 2019
Countrystride #10: Mardale Head - A walk on the wild side
Feb 20, 2019
Countrystride #9: Derwent Water: Creation of a landscape
Feb 06, 2019
Countrystride #8: Terry Abraham: Life on the mountains - A stroll on Helvellyn
Jan 18, 2019
Countrystride #7: A Grasmere Christmas - The Wordsworths and the coffin route
Dec 20, 2018
Countrystride #6: Langstrath - and the trees of Borrowdale
Dec 05, 2018
Countrystride #5: Ghosts of Burnmoor - Eskdale to Wasdale
Nov 16, 2018
Countrystride #4: Alfred Wainwright - In the footsteps of a legend
Nov 01, 2018
Countrystride #3: Farming the Borderlands - Rural life and the Roman Wall
Oct 11, 2018
Countrystride #2: Sheffield Pike - Mines and Community
Oct 11, 2018
Countrystride #1: Scafell Pike - Roof of England
Oct 11, 2018