St Cuthbert’s, Cliburn, Cumbria. Listing says late C12 font has octagonal bowl (recut?), with moulded underside, on shaft with zig-zag decoration; moulded necking to chamfered base. #FontsOnFriday

Morning all. Crown St, Gorbals, Glasgow 1970. Credit TSPL

Low Jock Scar Woods, Cumbria. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

The old bridge across the beck between Thirlmere and Leatheswater that no longer exists. This bridge was swallowed up when these lakes were turned into a reservoir by the Victorians. The bridge was called Wath Bridge and linked Armboth and Dalehead Hall. #BridgesThursday

Sweet chestnut presenting well in the woods today. Clever how the spikey jacket opens to reveal the nuts inside.

An old packhorse bridge near Smaithwaite Farm, Thirlmere, Cumbria. In the 17th and 18th centuries, this would have carried one of the two roads through the valley over the beck. #BridgesThursday

Former entrance to The Welcome to Cumberland Inn, Eamont Bridge, Cumbria. “Struimus in Diem, sed Nox venit,” (We build for the Day, but Night comes) with the date “MDCCXVII” (1717) and the names of Nathan and Elizabeth Coull. R. L. Wharton added later in 1781. #WindowsOnWednesday

Bassenthwaite Lake at the weekend where it flows into the River Derwent.

While photographing this ephemeral pond at Selside in Cumbria, I heard a whoosh of wings. It was a Merlin hunting meadow pipits.

Miserichord graffiti, Cartmel Priory, South Cumbria. The 25 misericords date from 1440 and are of an exceptional quality. #MedievalMonday

Found this 17th Century farm near in Cumbria last week. Date on the front is 1692. Not listed. Very modified. Changed doors and windows. New roof? No chimneys. I wonder if it’s owned by a water company as it’s close to Thirlmere.

Moot Hall staircase, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Building construction started in 1520. In 1645, the building was the location for the trial of seven alleged witches. #StaircaseSaturday

Fungi found at the bottom of an old oak tree at Low Jock Scar in Cumbria. #FungiFriday

900 year old font in the Church of St Mungo, Dearham, Cumbria. Listing says it appears to have been a cushion capital, carved with dragons and symmetrical designs in scrolled panels. #FontsOnFriday

A flooded lane going down to a bridge over the River Derwent in Cumbria last weekend.

Dunmail Raise cairn Cumbria. According to tradition, Dunmail was the last king of Cumbria when it was part of Strathclyde, Scotland and is buried beneath the cairn. Dunmail Raise, meaning ‘Dyfnwal’s Cairn’, may well be named after the historical Dyfnwal ab Owain, King of Strathclyde. #TombTuesday

Threlkeld Knotts coming out of the shadows of Clough Head in the Lake District this morning.

Viking-era, Celtic wheel-head cross, St Mungo’s Church, Dearham, Cumbria. #MedievalMonday

Bassenthwaite valley in the Lake District this morning. A few fields flooded after all the rain in the previous two days.

Rain over last two days was focussed on northern England and Wales. Highest total was 113 mm in Wales. Most of Scotland and southern England hardly had any.

It has rained almost all of yesterday, last night and today. The lakes are full, the fullest they have been for more than a year. Derwentwater, Cumbria.

Sizergh Castle, Cumbria, probably 15th century. Cumbria has lots of these pele towers. Wikipedia says ‘reaving became so common and so violent by the 16th century that wealthier border families took to building bastle houses or pele towers’. #CastleSaturday

The weather forecast for next week is very good but until then, another day of this to get through. Derwentwater, Cumbria today.

This seems to be a ‘spectacular rustgill’. Found on a tree stump in Keswick, Cumbria last week. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Mycology

One of the Georgian doorways in Whitehaven waiting to be renovated. #AdoorableThursday

Back door, Wordsworth House, Cockermouth, Cumbria. ‘Please take care’. #AdoorableThursday

Whitehaven, West Cumbria. Georgian. #WindowsOnWednesday

#ThickTrunkTuesday A large, old tree at Sizergh Castle in Cumbria.

Wordsworth House, Cockermouth , Cumbria. Kitchen circa 1770. Absence of appliances reminds me no electricity so light from fires and candles. Outside I guess it was no trains or cars so transport by horse or walking long distances.

The birthplace of William Wordsworth (7 April 1770) in Cockermouth, Cumbria. A very large house as the family were very well off. Wordsworth's father was a legal representative of James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale.

The Old Quay, Whitehaven, Cumbria. Originally built 1687, stone (parts still remain). Altered in 1792 and 1809.

The candlestick chimney, Whitehaven, Cumbria. The chimney was a boiler house flue constructed at the time of the Wellington coal pit sinking (1840-45). The boiler house powered pumps for removing seawater which was flooding the mines.

Faint waterspout near Kells in Cumbria yesterday. Just about see the cloud part top right and the water part bottom right. #waterspout #UKWeather #CumbriaWeather #Torro

We were in Whitehaven yesterday on the coast of Cumbria. The town’s growth was largely due to coal mining from the 17th century onwards. In the Georgian period the town was rich, leaving a legacy of over 170 listed buildings. Some have recently been restored.

#ForestFriday #LakeDistrict #Keswick

A stone bridge over the cinder track cycleway near Robin Hoods Bay in North Yorkshire. The bridge would have been built during the construction of the railway in the Victorian era. #BridgesThursday #Bridges #ThrowbackThursday

The beautiful dappled light under an oak canopy on Monday afternoon near Ravenstone in Cumbria.

A road cutting through rock near Skiddaw in the Lake District yesterday. There is a wheel rut from years of use in farming, mining, quarrying and peat cutting.

I don’t know much about moths but this one was on one of the car windows this morning. Apparently it is a red-green carpet moth and first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767 (Wikipedia). #moths

Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey was the centre of the medieval kingdom of Northumbria. #MedievalMonday

Memorial tomb of Richard Herbert and Magdalen Herbert at St Nicholas Church, Montgomery, Powys, Wales. Magdalen had the tomb erected in 1600. The tomb includes maquettes of eight of their children. #memorialmonday #memorials

The Eagle Stone, a Pictish symbol stone near Strathpeffer in north east Scotland dating from before the 7th century. You can just about see carvings said to represent a horseshoe and an eagle. #StandingStoneSunday

There have been some big shower clouds about these last few days. This one yesterday at 6 pm over West Cumbria.

Dunskey Castle near the beautiful Portpatrick, looking amazing in the sunshine today. No entrance fee, no gift shop, no visitors guide but also no warning signs, no safety rails and open doorways to a cliff edge. And boy was it stunning.

A ladder to a bell in a church tower. Sometimes you get an opportunity to go somewhere you wouldn't normally go. Tower date from 1894. Cumbria.

Footbridge over the River Tees in Barnard Castle, County Durham. Grade II listed. Dated 1882 with inscription `WILSON BROS. & CO. ENGINEERS 1882 DARLINGTON'. Constructed for mill workers to cross the river to the heart of the mill complex. #BridgesOnThursday

#WindowsOnWednesday Thorngate Mill Building, Barnard Castle, County Durham. Grade II listed. Originally a worsted weaving mill. Early C19.

#ThicktrunkTuesday Near Braithwaite in the Lake District.

The old railway line between Scarborough and Whitby, which operated from 1885 until its closure in 1965 is now a popular 21-mile multi-use path known as The Cinder Track. It runs through some beautiful countryside with some lovely trees along the way.

Rooms by the Sea ~ Homage to Edward Hopper, through my sunglasses. Cromer, Norfolk, England