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The Lake District farmers celebrating the region's iconic landscape in British tweed

Producing tweed in the heart of the Lake District is helping to add value to wool and connect people to the beautiful landscape

Alex Black
Deputy Editor
clock • 7 min read
Maria Benjamin and John Atkinson of Lake District Tweed
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Maria Benjamin and John Atkinson of Lake District Tweed

The venture into wool and creation of Lake District Tweed came from a realisation by Maria Benjamin, of how little wool was worth when rolling fleeces with partner, John Atkinson, who, like many farmers,...

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