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About Caldbeck
In spite of its rapid development during the Industrial Revolution, Caldbeck remains an attractive village today. Many of the mill buildings and other signs of the old industries have been renovated and it is easy to see signs of the past manufacture of wooden bobbins in addition to the other industries of lead and copper mining, sheep and arable farming. The village church of St Kentigern, better known as Mungo, dates from the 12th Century, although there is little remaining of the original edifice. Most of the present day building dates from the 19th Century. It is here that one of the Lake District’s most famous sons is buried. “D’ye ken John Peel?” asked the song and the tombstone of the man answers, with its ornate decorations of hunting paraphernalia and even…...
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