Alston Moor, Cumbria: Buildings in a North Pennines Landscape

by Lucy Jessop

Alston Moor is a large rural parish in Cumbria which historically both depended upon and provided important services for the agricultural and mineral industries of the North Pennines.Much of the area's settlement is dispersed among hamlets and single farmsteads. Isolated from major northern cities such as Carlisle and Newcastle by the surrounding hills and moors, the parish's wild upland landscape provides a conditioning influence on a distinctive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848021178
• ISBN13: 9781848021174
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Historic England
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.2" x 8.1"