Category: History
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Today Little Langdale is so peaceful and secluded you could be forgiven for thinking it has always been this way. However, take a walk around the valley and you soon come across evidence of a bustling industrial past.
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Have you ever wondered how we came to be called the Three Shires Inn?
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Judging by her name, you'd be quite right to suspect that Josephina Alys Hermes de Vasconcellos was not a native of Little Langdale; and in all likelihood your initial response this Spanish tongue-twister will be 'who?'
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Read our story about how eight young men, on a navigation training flight in 1944, met their fate above Little Langdale and where parts of the plane still lie today.
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