It's 50 years on since that the railway line from Carlisle to the seaside town, Silloth, was closed. Generations of Cumbrians used to take the train there for their holidays. But thanks to Doctor ...

Starter: Silloth on Solway is located far off the beaten path, but that should not dissuade anyone from playing the course. In a constant drizzle with cool temperatures and cloudy skies, Silloth was a ...

WE have looked back at Silloth in the sixties, our archives gathered results of what was going on in the town... The town has been a popular destination for visitors for years, reaching the peak of ...

13:02, Wed, Aug 20, 2025 Updated: 21:18, Sun, Aug 24, 2025 Roll into Silloth and the land suddenly starts to heave like the sea it borders: dunes rearing up, gorse flaring yellow, the Solway Firth ...

Silloth Tourism Action Group want to preserve Silloth Airfield for future generations, and highlight the part the seaside town played during the war. During WW2 thousands of American, Canadian and ...

For many years Silloth was a thriving holiday destination. But the demise of the railway largely put pay to that. But it still does attract a lot of visitors and that included the BBC Bus. Here are a ...

A replica of a Lockheed Hudson plane was unveiled in Silloth to mark 100th birthday of the RAF in 2018 Plans have been lodged to display a World War Two fort excavated at an airfield. Silloth Tourism ...

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The following article has been submitted to the BBC “People’s War” website on behalf of John Walton of Penrith, Cumbria. It deals with the experiences of his late father Edwin Walton, who served with ...