Blog & Updates From The Lake District | Inspired by Lakeland

William D. Shannon's new book, 'Cumbria – 1,000 years of maps', features more than 100 charts, surveys and maps from ten centuries of cartography. ...

Our first title of '22 is The Ullswater Walking Companion, featuring 20 ambles, rambles and scrambles in the iconic Ullswater valley. The third i...

In common with many indie businesses this year, we're letting Black Friday pass us by. But we did want to do something to celebrate the coming fe...

Here at Inspired by Lakeland, three things we love are books, Christmas... and the Lake District. So working on our latest book - A Lake District C...

The rich heritage of literature in Ambleside is celebrated in our second new walking guidebook of 2021, available for pre-order from today. The A...

if you were to press me on my first love - after the Lakes - then it's walking. It has been a mainstay of my life for the best part of two decades....

Vicky's kitchen has been turned into an impromptu packing room as we process online orders from our fab customers. We're working flat out to get ca...

Locked down for the second time, and with most of our local stockists closed, we are busy at Inspired by Lakeland HQ sending out Christmas orders d...

The story of Through the Locking Glass is one of Cumbrian passion, creativity and inspiration in the toughest of times.  As lockdown was announced ...

On 23 March, 2020 prime minister Boris Johnson announced lockdown measures in response to Covid-19... ...and suddenly, overnight, everything change...

It's a bittersweet moment. Sunday was meant to be the premiere of Terry Abraham's final film in his 'Life of a Mountain' trilogy, focussing on that...

Nearly five months into 2019 and the team at Inspired by Lakeland has never been busier... Not only do we have two major new books in production, w...