100 Interesting Facts
We have now passed our original target of posting 100 Interesting Facts - and are still adding to them! We began posting these back in 2017, with the Facts being submitted by our volunteers and friends. Click on a 'Fact' for more Background information.
You can access a full list of all the Facts here, so you can browse looking for anything that takes your fancy. Click on the title to take you to the 'Background' page. Next to the title is a brief explanation as to what the story is about. The date is the date the Fact was first posted to the site. Please note that when we first started on this series, these Background entries were short and sweet- but over time we have tended to put more and more information into our new postings - along with references so you can follow up on more about the story at your leisure.
If YOU have a Fact you'd like to share, please Contact Us , giving us references so we can check - as before posting anything, our team of historians have to be sure it REALLY IS a fact, not a myth!
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Each night the town clock bell at Kirkby Stephen Parish Church rings eight times for the time and once for every day of the month.
Kendal Parish Church has five aisles and is the second largest parish church in England.
Did you know there was a Royal Mint in Carlisle in the 12th Century.
The 1660 Post Office Act ordered for the first time '...that a Letter ... Post shall ... once a week [come] to Kendal by way of Lancaster'
Did you know that the oldest "railway" in the world has been discovered in a mine near Caldbeck and dates back to the 14th Century.
The William Pit Disaster (Whitehaven) occured on 15th August 1947. 104 men died - but only 14 were killed by the blast itself.
Siegfried Herford performed the first ascent of the Central Buttress of Scafell in 1914 - a great jump forward in British Rock Climbing
The monks of Cartmel resisted Henry VIII's reformation, and joined the Pilgrimage of Grace - which led to their executions.
Eleven million tons of iron ore were extracted from a pit called Nigel, Roanhead, near Barrow, between the 1850s and 1942 when it closed
