Arts, crafts and other animals
WHEN the ice retreated from Cumbria some 10,000 years ago, it left behind a dramatic landscape of carved peaks, wide U-shaped valleys and 99 lakes, tarns and meres that provided a dramatic backdrop to the many notable Arts-and-Crafts houses that were built there in a brief, but brilliant decade in the early 20th century.
Drawn by the magnificent scenery, a ready supply of stone and slate and an abundance of local labour and craftsmen, leading architects of the day, such as C. F. A. Voysey, M. H. Baillie Scott and Sir Edwin Lutyens, built impressive holiday homes in the Arts-and-Crafts style
