Category: Geltsdale
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Stones That Speak: The Curricks of Talkin Fell
Stand on Talkin Fell in Cumbria and you are surrounded by towers of stacked stone. Locals call them curricks. They are not modern art. They are not random. They are, in a quiet way, astonishing. The word ‘currick’ descends from Cumbric — a Celtic language, closely related to Old Welsh, spoken across northern England over…
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Gairs Colliery — Where the Rocket Spent its Retirement
An unexpected find in the King’s Forest of Geltsdale. What stands here now is a hollow shell, but once it was the pulse of Gairs Colliery, a lonely Cumbrian mine with a knack for odd decisions and even odder management. A railway once ran from this spot up to the col. You can still trace…