Longtown, Cumbria

The size of the Longtown Sheep Market meant that the disease had spread right across the country in a very short time.

Longtown became the centre for control of the disease in south western Scotland and North West England.

Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North East and Cumbria and ITV Border.

[3] In April 2014 Carlisle City Council rejected a planning application for a 2-million-imperial-gallon (9-million-litre) slurry lagoon at Scaurbank Wood, to the north east of Longtown.

The proposal was to create three Central Ammunition Depots (CAD): one in the south (Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire); one in the Midlands (Nesscliffe, Shropshire); and one in the north.

[7] While the other two sites were sat above easily hewn limestone, Longtown is located above granite, which meant that it took longer to create and only came into operations late in the Second World War.

The site was chosen as it used to be part of HM Factory, Gretna, that stretched to Eastriggs over the border in Scotland, one of the biggest makers of explosives during the First World War.