Eden District: A66
The landscape around Eden is a rolling patchwork of pasture and enclosed fields on the edge of the Pennines, which has shaped both the built environment and local life. Here the A66 runs east–west across Cumbria, forming a major trans-Pennine road between the M6 near Penrith and the A1(M) in North Yorkshire. This section passes through the rural Eden Valley, an area long associated with livestock farming and market towns. Nearby Appleby-in-Westmorland was the historic county town of Westmorland, and its annual horse fair remains an important event in the British Traveller calendar. The road and surrounding farmland express the working character of northern England’s uplands.
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