For the Yorkshire Dales to acquire some real class and distinction (Lancashire loses turf to Yorkshire for Dales expansion, 2 August) it has clearly been necessary for the national park to encompass some of Lancashire’s treasured acres. Although the park now embraces the high moors of Leck Fell, let it never be forgotten that all these lands, along with the administrative jiggery-pokery that redefined the Furness district and “Lancashire across the sands” as Cumbria, remain irrevocably within the County Palatine of Lancaster.
Many gradely folk share the sentiment “insufferably bumptious Yorkshire” and have long held the view that the only good that comes out Yorkshire are the roads into Lancashire.
Robert Wright (Exiled Lancastrian)
Caersws, Montgomeryshire
• What has Lancashire done to deserve this? Forty years ago the government gave Old Man of Coniston to Cumbria in the 1974 county boundaries reorganisation. This pushed its highest point to near Leck Fell (Green Hill is the generally recognised top). Now this has effectively been lost too. Eventually it may be Rivington Pike, or is that also lost to Greater Manchester?
Don Morris
Ings, Cumbria
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