Category: Nenthead
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The Village That Invented the Welfare State — and Then Built Graceland
England’s highest village once changed how we think about workers. Then one man did it again, in miniature. In 1825, the London Lead Company — run by Quakers with an unusual sense of moral duty — did something nobody had done before. They built Nenthead, in Cumbria, as the first purpose-built industrial village in England.…
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The Bishop’s Stones
Up on the bleak moorlands of the North Pennines today, straddling the borders of Durham, Cumbria, and Northumberland. A landscape of peat groughs and bogs thick with sphagnum moss, stirring memories—not necessarily unpleasant, just good times when I was fit enough to fly over this stuff without hesitating. Judging by the abundance of medicated grit…