David Felton

David moved to Cumbria in 2010 and lives near Keswick. He has been a lover of Lakeland landscapes since boyhood holidays to Wasdale and Eskdale in the 1980s and has been involved with various conservation projects, from dry-stone walling to tree planting. He is producer and co-presenter of Countrystride, the podcast dedicated to the landscapes, people and heritage of Cumbria and the Lake District.

The name Camri first appears on maps in AD 1050. Since then the Lake District and historic counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire have been mapped countless times. In this illustrated talk, David Felton, publisher of Cumbria – 1,000 Years of Maps by William Shannon, discusses the most important charts, surveys and maps from ten centuries of Cumbrian cartography. Cumbria - 1000 years of Maps