We decided to have another couple of days in the Lake District, travelling down from Dumfries and Galloway. We found a lovely hotel in Ravenglass, in the area we wanted to explore.
We are now on the look out for places to charge the EV! There are lots of them though; this was in Cockermouth on the way south.
Cockermouth is a lovely little place, near the mouth of an estuary where three rivers join.
A few hundred metres south of Ravenglass is a Roman bath house, very well preserved; there is even some plaster on the walls!
Ravenglass has a main line railway station, and also the terminus for the “Ratty”, and old mineral line which is now a narrow gauge tourist line. There’s a handy local pub, too!
We found plenty nice food whilst in Ravenglass.
One of the places I wanted to visit for (remote) family history purposes is the village of Pennington. It has a church which is listed and was built in 1826, although a church was established there in the early 1100s.
Nearer to Ravenglass is Muncaster Castle, ancestral home of the Pennington family. There are almost certainly connections between this area and Pennington near Leigh in south Lancashire.
On our way back to Galloway we called in at St Mary’s Church, Gosforth, where there is a 10th century Viking cross in the churchyard, and a couple of Viking hogback grave markers inside, discovered in the foundations during rebuilding.