In 'Through Mountains to the Sea' (Places journal), John Scanlan travels the A66 through Cumbria, from the Lake District that was transformed from a spectacle of ‘holy terror’ to a tourist destination under the influence of the Romantic poets, to the post-industrial coastal towns of Workington and Whitehaven. 'To drive the A66 is to pass between worlds', he explains, 'from the apparently eternal mountains to the dynamic industrial coast - from the sublime to the subliminal'.
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