Dallam Tower News Today

Cumbrian visitor attraction, Levens Hall & Gardens, has launched a new audio tour facility, to help enhance the knowledge of those visiting…

Column by historian Roger Bingham of Ackenthwaite:

The latest planning applications received by South Lakeland District Council

The latest planning applications received by South Lakeland District Council: Siting of a new holiday lodge, Moat Farm, Aldingham, Ulverston. For Mr and Mrs Mark and Sue Gunnell. Single & two storey rear extensions & a detached double garage/store, Brookside House, Gleaston, Ulverston. For Mrs Angela Flannery. Application for a non-material amendment following a grant of planning permission 5/02/3196 (Change of use to form site for 27 static caravans), Lakeland Leisure Park, Moor Lane, Fl...

FIRE at historic Milnthorpe site ARRESTS have been made in connection to a fire at a historic building near Milnthorpe. Last April, fire crews from Kendal and Milnthorpe were called to a blaze at the Buck House deer shelter on the Dallam Tower Estate in Milnthorpe. Cumbria constabulary have given an update to the case. In a statement they said: “As part of the police’s enquiries, four males and two females, between the ages of 13-16, all local, were arrested on suspicion of arson. �...

INVESTIGATIONS are ‘ongoing’ into the cause of a fire which caused ‘significant damage’ to a historic deer shelter on Monday. Fire crews from Kendal and Milnthorpe were called to the blaze at the Buck House deer shelter on the Dallam Tower Estate in Milnthorpe at around 6:30am on April 26. According to a Cumbria County Council spokesman the fire was ‘well alight on arrival’ and was extinguished by 9am, with crews remaining on scene to damp down and make the area safe. “Fir...

A DEVASTATED farmer has described the moment he found 29 dead lambs in his field as ‘like a war zone’. Steve Gunn has urgently called on dog walkers to keep their pets on a lead after he found dozens of lambs - some only four days old - had been mauled and trampled to death. “People need to put their dogs on leads, but it’s a bit late for that advice now,” said Mr Gunn, who farms at Leighton House, Slack Head, near Milnthorpe. “You can’t imagine the fear those lambs were f...