WAKING on a bright Saturday morning with no plans, no invitations and no obligations to speak of, I impulsively decided to resume my quest ...

The remnants of a large late-Viking-age hall were recently uncovered by a volunteer archaeology group at a farm in Silloth, Cumbria. The load-bearing timber found there was carbon dated to ...

Friends come together to fill a gap left by the closure of services in rural west Cumbria. Organisers say ... of tonnes of molasses was contained in Silloth harbour. The Zapadnyy ran aground ...

I alighted outside the town centre at around 9.30am, as Google Maps told me I was ... 1870s so that's conjecture). Silloth seemed a world away from the rest of Cumbria – the only reminder ...

The remnants of a large late-Viking-age hall were recently uncovered by a volunteer archaeology group at a farm in Silloth, Cumbria. The load-bearing timber found there was carbon dated to ...