Guided Tours & Walks

Professional Blue Badge Tourist Guide for both Cumbria and Northumbria.
Based in Kendal in the English Lake District - but work throughout northern England.

[Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshire_dales]

Hidden away in the Howgill Fells, Cautley Spout is one of England's highest cascading waterfalls - you can see it in the distance in this image

📍 Near Sedbergh
🥾 Great walking routes from the Cross Keys area

#YorkshireDales #CautleySpout #NationalParks

📸 Callum Thompson

[Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshire_dales]

🚂✨ Dent Head Viaduct is a testament to Victorian engineering. As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Settle-Carlisle line, we're reminded why this railway remains one of Britain's greatest journeys.

📍 Dent Head Viaduct 🚂 Sir Nigel Gresley

[Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshire_dales]

The River Rawthey is fed by streams draining the northern Howgill Fells, including water from Cautley Spout, one of England's highest waterfalls. The Rawthey flows into the into the River Lune just down the road from here, at Sedbergh.

📸 Cal Thompson | #YorkshireDales

[Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshire_dales]

It's 150 years since this remarkable railway first opened - an enduring feat of engineering! Next Tuesday also marks the 40th anniversary of the reopening of eight stations along the line, including Dent, Garsdale, Horton-in-Ribblesdale and Ribblehead.

[Westmorland Gazette @gazettenewsdesk]

Kendal shops where you can spend a penny - without having to spend a penny https://t.co/pQbUBsNHJf

[Industrial Heritage Support Officer for England @IHSOengland]

https://t.co/TolvR6nQB1

[Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshire_dales]

🛤️ Happy 150th Anniversary to the Settle-Carlisle 🚆

150 years of historic journeys, breathtaking landscapes, and unforgettable adventures.

🎥 Wendy McDonnell | @setcarrailway | @foscl

[The Victorian Society @thevicsoc]

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026

Former Strand Railway Station and Railwaymen’s Club, Barrow-in-Furness

Grade II, E. G. Paley, 1863

Read more: https://t.co/x7g6O7KBCU

Photo: Thomas Ollivier / The Victorian Society

#TopTen26

[Westmorland Gazette @gazettenewsdesk]

World’s oldest topiary garden at Levens Hall searches for 12th custodian in 332 years https://t.co/knwOaLiS1H

[Westmorland Gazette @gazettenewsdesk]

Award-winning museum to reopen after closure due to "running costs" https://t.co/s7imqHQQGZ

[Natural England @NaturalEngland]

The Coast to Coast Path is England’s newest National Trail. 🎉

Spanning three National Parks from the #LakeDistrict to #NorthYorkshire, National Trail status will give even more people the chance to explore this 190-mile iconic route.

https://t.co/OSDRVISrVv

#CoastToCoast

[Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshire_dales]

The Coast to Coast Path is now officially a National Trail 🥳 53 years after Alfred Wainwright devised a 190 mile, Coast to Coast Walk, between St Bees on the Irish Sea and Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Sea in 1973.

Funded by @NaturalEngland

#YorkshireDales #CoasttoCoastPath

[Westmorland Gazette @gazettenewsdesk]

New sign unveiled to mark the final resting place of famous author https://t.co/0i4wPn3deT

[Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshire_dales]

"the grass is always greener on the other side"

#YorkshireDales #Proverb #Weekend

[British Guild of Tourist Guides @BBGuides]

Today is the start of #englishtourismweek and we're celebrating the 1100+ locally qualified Blue & Green Badge tourist guides that are #britainsbestguides
- they're exceptionally good company!

Find your very own guide today https://t.co/dbQ8lZC7sr

@VisitEngland #travelgoals

[British Guild of Tourist Guides @BBGuides]

It’s official: @CarlisleCath East Window is the Nation’s Favourite Stained Glass Window!

Winning the ‘Divine Light’ competition, this C14th masterpiece is a triumph of medieval art.

See why it took the top spot in the latest #blog by @Heritarcumbria https://t.co/E8QqKuXJds

[Westmorland Gazette @gazettenewsdesk]

Lakeland Arts announces return of iconic sculpture to Kendal https://t.co/ZMWfNsPFEo

[Visit Eden @VisitEden]

Run an attraction, provide activities/transport or run an organisation, project or scheme of interest to local accommodation providers? Take a table at the FREE Westmorland & Furness Leaflet Swap & Networking event, Tuesday 17 March at @HuttoninForest

https://t.co/2mWatkYXmW

[Institute of Tourist Guiding @TouristGuiding]

Start 2026 by #training to become a qualified Blue Badge Tourist Guide sharing the incredible stories of #Somerset #Gloucestershire & #Wiltshire with global visitors.
Application Deadline: 15 February 2026

Download the prospectus & apply today! https://t.co/SGtVeIio6l

[English Cathedrals @engcathedrals]

Here we go! Announcing : 🥇The Winner of the Nation's Favourite #StainedGlass Window🥇

It all started in 1359 after a donation of 40 shillings ‘to make a window anew in the chancel’ ... the Nations' Favourite #StainedGlass Window is one of the largest and most complex examples of Flowing Decorated Gothic tracery in England - the East Window (1359) at @CarlisleCath.

An absolute beauty and derserved winner. Congratutaltions to Carlisle Cathedral and thanks to everyone who voted for ALL of the windows. So many to choose from, such a difficult choice.

You can read more about the winning window which was commissioned after plague and destruction in and then reverently restored after it was 'in a bad state in every respect’ here ⤵️

https://t.co/g6ZUa0ln0d

And you can buy #DivineLight the Stained Glass of England’s Cathedral @Gough_Janet here ⤵️

https://t.co/sVG3BcK9yo