A new National Nature Reserve was formally created yesterday by Natural England. Wild Ennerdale is the ninth largest reserve in England, and one of the first 'Super NNRs' recognised for their landscape-scale approach.
Saw this on the news last night. It's over a decade since I was last there but I've always thought Ennerdale is the most 'Scottish' of the Lakeland dales in terms of feel and character. Probably a lot of it is down to no road and its location out in the far west away from most of the day trippers. Pillar seen from Ennerdale is such an impressive mountain to look at. Puts many a 'dull' Munro to shame.
News Place Nicknames Added to Tool to Aid Emergency Services
Ordnance Survey is inviting emergency service organisations around Great Britain to input local and colloquial nicknames to a new database called the Vernacular Names Tool, as an aid to getting responders to the right location even if...