Jackson, Ian. Cumbria Rocks — 60 extraordinary rocky places that tell the story of the Cumbrian landscape. Newcastle upon Tyne : Northern Heritage, 2022.

The richly illustrated and accessible book series of Cumbria, Northumberland and Durham Rocks are available to purchase from Northern Heritage.

Cumbria Rocks

Ian Jackson

This book reveals the incredible story of the Cumbrian landscape through 60 special places and connects its rocks to wildlife, history, economy and culture.

The book will help you see Cumbria with new eyes and encourage you to explore the whole county and its diverse and beautiful places, and understand why they are as they are.

Pull on your boots and climb over remnants of old volcanoes and deep oceans, experience the power of ancient earthquakes, walk over a crag that was once a coral sea, witness the awesome force of the last Ice Age or simply wonder at the ingenuity of our ancestors who used these rocks in so many ways to create our shared heritage.

(Photo 00-1) Front cover. Grange Fell.

Contents

Title page and preliminaries

Endorsement

Preface

Sources and acknowledgements

Endnote

The author

List of resources

Back cover

Introduction

Contents

Rivers, seas and life

1 Christianbury Crag

2 Fleswick Bay

3 Gelt gorge

4 Great Mell Fell

5 Holmepark Fell

6 Howgill Fells

7 Kentmere

8 Kingwater

9 Kirkby Stephen

10 Lacy

11 Lanercost Priory

12 Pardshaw Crag

13 Parton

Volcanoes and molten rock

14 Armathwaite

15 Carrock Fell

16 Ennerdale

17 Eycott Hill

18 High Cup Gill

19 High Rigg

20 Pavey Ark

21 Shap Granite

22 Threlkeld

23 Tilberthwaite

Earthquakes and folded rocks

24 Arnside

25 Brothers Water

26 Causey Pike

27 Dufton Pike

28 Hartside

29 Mosedale

30 Penton Linns

31 Shap Summit

32 Tarn Hows

33 Trusmadoor

Climate and landscape change

34 Brampton

35 Glasson Moss

36 Glenridding

37 Great Asby Scar

38 Hale Moss

39 Helvellyn

40 Inner Solway

41 Mickleden

42 Ravenglass

43 Skelsmergh

44 Slater Bridge

45 Wastwater

Heritage and mining

46 Florence Mine

47 Furness Abbey

48 Gilsland Spa

49 Hallbankgate

50 Long Meg and her Daughters

51 Long Meg Mine

52 Loughrigg Fell

53 Nenthead

54 Newlands

55 Roughton Gill and Silver Gill

56 Saltom Pit

57 Seathwaite

58 Sellafield

59 Tullie House

60 Watchtree

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