Christopher Saxton’s map of Cumberland, dated 1576, shows the west coast of the county bounded on one side by what might have been regarded as the perilous, uncivilized, ocean – complete with sea monsters – and a landscape to the east and south west that is dotted with strange-looking mounds (by the map engraver, Augustine Ryther) …
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‘Flimby 1977’, Raymond Moore.
Raymond Moore on the Threshold
For someone who had been so taken by the fugitive nature of the things that took up his interest to the extent that he thought of them as reflections of his own state of mind, it might not be that unusual that Raymond Moore, a pioneer of art photography in Britain, followed the western edge of that country until he ultimately vanished into obscurity.
Read MoreA road trip, circa 1798
Here is an interesting find uncovered during my research to try and figure out what might have been the most used route to the west coast of Cumberland for a traveller coming from the south in the days of horse and stagecoach.
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