About
This website developed from the 2011
public campaign to include this area in the
National Park system
The Orton Fells Group campaigned to designate this beauiful countryside for its protection in 2011. This was considered a very important historic transition and expected to bring economic stimulus and protective management to our Westmorland Fells, an area of nationally recognised landscape quality and internationally recognised significance as specialist wildlife habitat. Nobody ever questioned the validity of including these Fells in the National Park system according to the following key criteria:
Nature and wildlife are rich
Landscape is of high quality
Recreational potential is high
Cultural and historical interest is high
Characterised by sweeping views and broad skies, with wild fell-sides and free roaming fell ponies and sheep, limestone pavements and screes, moors, tarns,
working farms, businesses, and pretty villages of Carboniferous limestone and sandstone nestling in the fertile valleys and fells. The area has great charm and
our residents and visitors are understandably fond of it. We are now included in the expansion of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Ours is the sort of landscape that is impressive in all weathers and throughout the seasons. It draws photographers, cyclists, coast-to-coast walkers, fishermen,
bird watchers and other nature lovers and touring drivers, but not in the sort of numbers that can’t be absorbed by the scale of the scenery, the friendly local
pubs and guest houses and the multitude of footpaths, bridle-ways and open moors that offer mindcleansing vistas and the unspoiled 360° views that are
increasingly rare these days.
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© This site and its contents are copyright 2010-22 by C.Paxton and other contributing members of the Westmorland Fells Group.
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Westmorland Fells
Celebrating Cumbria’s Carboniferous Fells and Dales
About
This website developed from the
2011 public campaign to include this
area in the National Park system
The Orton Fells Group campaigned to designate this beauiful countryside for its protection in 2011. This was considered a very important historic transition and expected to bring economic stimulus and protective management to our Westmorland Fells, an area of nationally recognised landscape quality and internationally recognised significance as specialist wildlife habitat. Nobody ever questioned the validity of including these Fells in the National Park system according to the following key criteria:
Characterised by sweeping views and broad
skies, with wild fell-sides and free roaming fell
ponies and sheep, limestone pavements and
screes, moors, tarns, working farms, businesses,
and pretty villages of Carboniferous limestone and
sandstone nestling in the fertile valleys and fells.
The area has great charm and our residents and
visitors are understandably fond of it. We are now
included in the expansion of the Yorkshire Dales
National Park.
Ours is the sort of landscape that is impressive in
all weathers and throughout the seasons. It draws
photographers, cyclists, coast-to-coast walkers,
fishermen, bird watchers and other nature lovers
and touring drivers, but not in the sort of numbers
that can’t be absorbed by the scale of the scenery,
the friendly local pubs and guest houses and the
multitude of footpaths, bridle-ways and open
moors that offer mindcleansing vistas and the
unspoiled 360° views that are increasingly rare
these days.
© This site and its contents are copyright 2010-22 by C.Paxton and
other contributing members of the Westmorland Fells Group.
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