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Visitors to the Eden Valley will discover a mysterious neighbour to the nation’s most-visited national park

by Michael Earnshaw The Eden Benchmarks form a set of ten sculptures, by ten different artists, close to (or in two cases overlooking) the River Eden in Cumbria. They were commissioned and installed by the East Cumbria Countryside Project (ECCP) to mark the millennium. Working downstream, as seems natural, the first is high above Mallerstang near the source of the river, and the last is at Rockcliffe, north-west of Carlisle, just before the river flows into the Solway Firth. (Note that the cont...