Penelope finds out about life amidst the renowned landscape of Cumbria. She finds out that there is much more to life in a Cumbrian village than tourists and tea shops. She begins in Coniston, a village that has tackled everything from copper mining to hill farming and high-class Victorian tourism to the speed records of Donald Campbell. The northern areas of Morecambe Bay show her yet another astonishing and influential landscape before she returns to the Lake District and the village of Grasmere.
