Soon after 1918, we were gifted England’s highest mountain, Scafell Pike, and 13 other Lake District summits, including the iconic Great Gable, as war memorials to look after on behalf of the nation. These gifts were described at the time as the “world’s greatest war memorial.”
100 years after the end of the first world war, we're looking back on our year of remembrance in the Lakes. Find out what we've been doing, and how you can join in on 18th November at Kendal Mountain Festival.
2018 marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. In the early years following the war, three very special gifts were made to the National Trust to look after on behalf of the nation.
Where Poppies Blow: a moving exhibition at Wordsworth House
In the Great War, tens of thousands went to fight for the fields, flowers and birds of Britain. Our 2018 exhibition marks 100 years since the end of hostilities by revealing the extraordinary role played by nature.
A special 'leave no trace' arts project of a song cycle performed and recorded on the top of Great Gable and the other fells gifted by the Fell and Rock Climbing Club.
Help to look after the landscape, culture and wildlife of the Lakes, so people can find freedom, fresh air and the enriching experience of nature here forever.
