Learn more about rural objects and lives.

All these links leave the Museum site. Use the Back button to return.

http://www.ruralhistory.org Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, Berkshire UK

http://www.lakelandmuseum.org.uk/ Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry, Kendal, Cumbria UK

http://www.kendalmuseum.org.uk/ Kendal Museum, Kendal, Cumbria UK

http://www.cumbrialakes.org/ Work and Life in the Lakes, Cumbria County Council

http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010136ernle/010136toc.htm Transcript of Lord Ernle's 1912 book on the history of British farming from the Conquest to the early 1900s

http://www.stackyard.com An agricultural site; part of the Agricultural Webring

http://www.wyandotte.co.uk Wyandotte poultry site

http://www.pentalk.org/ Cumbrian farming site with chat room (requires you to log in)

http://www.fwi.co.uk/live/ Modern farming site, Farmers Weekly UK interactive, with on line forum (requires you to log in - beware as it may not let you out of its window; use File > New > Window before you explore it.)

Note: the sites listed above are bona fide and can be trusted to give accurate information without commercial bias. Once you move out from these sites, you will find there are many others, some accurate and some whose information you should take with a pinch of salt. Use your own judgement as to which category these fall into.

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http://www.borderfinearts.com Border Fine Arts of Langholm Studios, in Scotland, produce wildlife and countryside subjects as finely sculpted models.

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