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Dales & Lakes
TrailBOOKSHOP
Guide to the secondhand bookshops in the Yorkshire Dales
and Lake District and environs.
Produced by the Sedbergh Community Interest Company
Cover photograph by Stuart Manger.
Market Place Books - Cockermouth
Michael Moon - Whitehaven
Fireside Bookshop - Windermere
Kirkland Books - Kendal
The Gatehouse Bookshop - Cartmel
Daisyroots Books - Grange over Sands
Michael Green, Market Place Books, 30 Market Place, CockermouthCA13 9NG. A small shop, but perfectly formed, with a suprisingly wide selection of quality secondhand, collectible and antiquarian books. Good range on Art & Architecture and Local History.Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00. Tel: 01900 821300Email: [email protected]
Michael Moon’s Bookshop Antiquarian Booksellers and Local History Publishers, 19 Lowther Street, Whitehaven CA28 7AL. Large town-centre bookshop, located on two floors. Suppying books to forty countries, for over 43 years. 30,000 books on every conceivable subject. ‘When it’s wet – it’s fine at Moon’s.’ Open 9-30 to 5pm six days a week. Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays. Tel: 01946 599010 Email: [email protected]
Fireside Bookshop, 21 Victoria Street, Windermere, Cumbria LA23 1AB. Booksellers since 1980 with an interesting selection of antiquarian, new, academic and second hand books with particular reference to the humanities, history, the sciences etc. Book collections bought. Open Tuesday to Saturday 11 am – 5 pm daily. Tel: 015394 45855. Email: [email protected] www.firesidebookshop.co.uk www.thehumanitiesbookstore.com
7 Smokehouse Yard, Stricklandgate, Kendal LA9 4ND. Specilaist booksellers selling fine, rare, giftable and collectable books on many subjects, including modern first editions, signed books, fine bindings, The Lake District, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Ransome, Alfred Wainwright. Closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday by appointment.Open Wednesday - Saturday 10am-5pm; closed 12.30-1pm. Nearest car park is at Booths supermarket. Tel: 0800 8806247Email: [email protected] www.kirklandbooks.co.uk
Kerr & Sons Antiquarian Booksellers, The Gatehouse Bookshop, The Square, Cartmel, Cumbria LA11 6PX. Celebrating 80 years of Bookselling in Cartmel with a stock of over 10,000 quality books with prices ranging from £5 to £500. Priory Barn showroom/store available by appointment. Rare books bought and sold, valuations undertaken. Open Tuesday to Saturday: Afternoons Only 1.30 to 4.30 approx. Other times by appointment .Tel: 015395 36247 or 32508E-mail: [email protected]
Main Street, Grange over Sands, LA11 6DP.Friendly independent family business established in 1994. Extensive stock of collectable and contemporary titles in sought-after subjects. Browse over 20,000 books on two floors. Famous for fiction. Book searches undertaken. Free roadside parking opposite. Main town centre car-park within 5 minutes walk. Open Monday – Saturday 9:30 – 5:00. Tel: 015395 38817. Email: [email protected]
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SedberghBooktown
Avril’s Books - Sedbergh
Grove Rare Books - Bolton Abbey Manserghs - Settle
Barry McKay - Appleby
Beckside Books - Penrith
Summerfield Books - Penrith
Keswick Bookshop - Keswick
Keswick Collectables
Border Bookshop - Todmorden
Lyalls Bookshop - Todmorden
Hebden Bridge Antiques Centre
Books Upstairs - Otley
TP Books - Addingham
Westwood Books - Sedbergh
Dales and Lakes Book Centre - Sedbergh
The Old School Bookshop - Sedbergh
Sleepy Elephant Books and Country Walking - Sedbergh
Avrils’ Books at Farfield (Avril Whittle). Located 1 mile outside Sedbergh (Hawes road) at Farfield Mill next to Reception. Specialist stock of Craft, Textile, Needlework, Fine & Applied Arts subjects. Open daily 11 - 4 (10 - 5 in Summer) Tel 07967 638503 / 01539621958email: [email protected]
Grove Rare Books at Bolton Abbey. The quintessential country bookshop, and an unmissable call at this popular Dales destination. We stock a wide variety of quality books from £5 to £2,000. Trade visitors always welcome. Free customer parking.Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm. Tel: 01756 710717. Email: [email protected] www.groverarebooks.co.uk
Corner of High Street/Cheapside, Settle, N. Yorkshire BD24 9EU.Middling-sized general stock, including interesting theology and sheet music.Open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 10-12noon and 1-5pm. Tel: 01729 823502
Barry McKay Rare Books, Kingstone House, BattlebarrowAppleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria CA16 6XT. Antiquarian & modern books on a variety of subjects. Specialists in new and out of print books on all aspects of the arts & history of the book.Open Tues-Fri: 10am - 5pm. Other times by appointment.Tel: 017683 52282 Email: [email protected]
31 St Andrew’s View, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 7YF. Two floors of interesting general stock and a touch of serendipity.Browsers welcome.Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm (Wed 10am-4pm)One hour spaces opposite; pay and display 3 minutes away.Tel: 01768895951Email: [email protected]:
Unit 12, Skirsgill Business Park, Penrith CA11 0FD.Summerfield Books carry an exciting range of Botanical, horticulture, trees, plant sciences and ecology books. Fungi, lichens and ferns. Find us 50 yards from Junction 40 (Penrith) of M6 motorway.Tel: 01768 210793 Email: [email protected]
4 Station Street, Keswick, Cumbria CA12 5HT. Good general stock, wide selection of mountaineering, Lake District, illustrated,children’s books, art books, maps and prints. Easter to 31st October, open most days 11am-5pm. Closed Wed and Sun: Winter, Saturday only and Christmas/New Year fortnight – telephone first if making a detour.Large car parks 3 to 4 minutes’ walk away. Tel: 017687 75535 or 01228 528567 Email:[email protected]
18 St John’s St, Keswick, CA12 5AS. A range of 2000 -2500 books of varied topics, quick turn around of books and new stock daily. Also a range of Postcards, Prints, Rare Vinyl, Antiques, Collectables, Vintage Jewellery etc.Open 7 days a week- 10am to 6pm Tel: 017687-74928 Email: [email protected]
Border Bookshop, 61a Halifax Road, Todmorden, Lancashire, OL14 5BB. Established in 1979, we specialise in sports books, mainly football and cricket, and have a stock of 20,000 British comics (phone first to view). Also a large general stock. Opening times – Monday, Thursday, Friday. 10 to 1, 2 to 5. Saturday 10 to 5. (4pm Nov to end March).Tel: 01706 814721Email: [email protected]
Lyall’s Bookshop 15 Rochdale Road, Todmorden, Lancashire OL14 5AA We carry a broad selection of secondhand and antiquarian books, covering a wide range of interests. Browsers are welcome to explore our comprehensive stock in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.Open Wed-Sun 11am to 4.30pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday. Tel: 07971 806624. Email: [email protected]
Hebden Bridge Antiques Centre, 11 Albert Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 8AH. One bookdealer specialising in needlework, textiles and fashion, including vintage patterns; another selling general fiction, inc. detective and SF (paperbacks, magazines and first editions). Some other stands also have books.Open 7 days a week from 10:30 to 16:30Tel: 01422 846561. Email: [email protected]
BOOKS UPSTAIRS, 9 Newmarket, Otley, West Yorks, LS21 3AE. John Hepworth. Small general stock with some antiquarian – see website for details. Above the Music Box, on street connecting Wetherspoons to Market Place. Otley is rich in places for books old and new. Shop open on Tues, Fri & Sat 11am to 4pmTel: 07805 484403 or 0113 275 4698.Booksupstairsotley.weebly.com email:[email protected]
71 Main Street, Addingham, W. Yorkshire LS29 0PD. Large stock of out-of-print and collectable books written and illustrated for children from paperbacks to fine first editions. Detective fiction and female authors. Select stock of Yorkshire and Bronte items. Many items ideal for unusual presents – christenings, 21sts etc.Open Fri-Sat 10am to 4pm, and by appointment. Parking. Tel: 01943 830095 or 07719606211
Long Lane, Sedbergh LA10 5AH. Over 70,000 books on all subjects on two floors. Parking. Coffee machine, sofas, toilet. Open daily 10.30-5 including Bank HolidaysTel: 015396 21233Email: [email protected]
72 Main Street, Sedbergh LA10 5AD. Co-operative of dealers covering books on all subjects including topography, mountaineering, natural history, art, railways & children’s. Also new local books,guides & maps,cards & gifts.Open daily 10-4Tel: 015396 20125Email: [email protected]
Joss Lane, Sedbergh LA10 5AS.A small bookshop selling a selection of second hand books adjacent to main business of manufacturing and retailing designer fleeces and accessories.Open Monday-Saturday 10-5pm. CLOSED Sunday.Tel: 015396 20169Email: [email protected] www.farfield.co.uk
Books - specialises in Local Subjects, Folios and Childrens.Discounted walking equipment is always available with Goretex walking boots from £45. 41 Main Street, Sedbergh, LA10 5BL. Tel: 015396 21770
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