This section provides a variety of links to web sites of various facilities in the area and to information sites.
We will be glad to exchange links with other sites which also aim at providing information to their visitors, both real and virtual, particularly those in Cumbria. We will also be happy to insert links to commercial sites provided the service they are selling is of value to our visitors - Coast to Coast walkers for example - and provided that they are willing to reciprocate with a link back to this site.
We cannot vouch for the sites, but have taken reasonable steps to ensure that theyare bona fide sites and do not contain inappropriate information. However, we clearly cannot be responsible for the quality, accuracy or appropriateness of their information.
Caveat emptor!
Local Information
Visit Cumbria -
Visit Cumbria is without doubt, the single definite web site about Cumbria. It is also the work of one man, Julian Thurgood, who generally has done the resarch, taken the photos and designed the site. If you want to know about Cumbria, visit his site! The official web site - The Official Tourism web site for Cumbria Whitehaven Web Site -
General information about Whitehaven Historic Whitehaven - As the name implies, more historically orientated. Haig Mining Museum - Well worth a visit Western Lake District - Concentrates more as the name implies, on the West side! Outdoor Lake District - Orientated more to the great outdoors iKnow Lake District - For information about accommodation in other parts of the Lake District The Cumbria Directory - Information on Cumbria The English Lakes - A guide to places of interest, buildings, towns & villages in Cumbria Discover the Lakes - Another source of information about the Lake District Tourist Information Office - For brochures, etc., please contact the Whitehaven TIB. Coast Line Uncut - A drive through video of St Bees village. Haile and Wilton - Picturesque nearby hamlets close to Egremont. www.wasdaleweb.co.uk - Information about Wasdale www.langdaleweb.co.uk - Information about Langdale www.conistonweb.co.uk - Information about Coniston www.buttermereweb.co.uk - Information about Buttermere Skippered boat hire -
Jack Southam, an experienced local boat owner, has a skippered boat for hire for fishing, diving or sight seeing trips. Bicycle Hire for local or Coast to Coast Cycle Route use David Milling, Whitehaven
For walkers, these are useful sites:- Ramblers' Association - UK Association Sierra Club - USA equivalent Sierra Club - Canadian equivalent
There are undoubtedly other countries with equivalent clubs - perhaps somebody will tell me about them and I'll add them! (National ones only please - not branches or individual clubs).
Commercial services:-
(I cannot comment in any way about their services, and their inclusion on this site is not to be taken as a recommendation).
