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Kendal Installs First Dark Sky and Wildlife Friendly Heritage Lights

Light polluting footway lights along Cliff Terrace on Low Fellside, Kendal have been replaced with the Town’s first Dark Skies and Wildlife friendly heritage-style lights.
Our Man in the Lake District

By Eleanor Broaders
English Lakes Tours

English Lakes Tours is a family-run business offering unique half-day, full-day and private guided tours in the Lake District and surrounding areas.
Reconnecting with the Landscape

In 2021, maybe more than any other year, our 'Landscape Grant' support of improvements to access, landscape enhancements and to free events will be more important that ever, helping visitors and residents to experience and reconnect with the landscape.