Seascale Views from Mawsons Ice Cream Parlour

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Seascale Views from Mawsons Ice Cream Parlour

If you thought there was a typo in the title of this webcam and it’s supposed to read seascape and not Seascale, well, you’d be wrong. As strange a name as it is for a British village, and there are plenty of those if you search for them, Seascale it is. Thank you to Mawsons Ice Cream Parlour for letting viewers have a peak at this quaint spot on the coast of Cumbria that otherwise might have passed them by. No doubt one or two, or more, visitors to this site will be popping in for a salted caramel sundae and a cup of coffee when the sun comes out.

While the origins of the name Seascale is not a hundred percent certain, it’s possible that invading Vikings can be blamed, as they can be for many unusual place names, for it. Back in the days of the marauding Norsks, the name may have meant something akin to wooden shed, but Seascale is definitely more than a shed these days. Its development escalated with the arrival of the railway in the mid-19th century and while it hasn’t suffered a massive population explosion, it’s now home to around two-thousand people.

Seascape may look tranquil, but it attracts plenty of visitors during the warmer months of the year which comes as no surprise. Located on the border of the Lake District National Park, surrounded on three sides by verdant countryside and with a stretch of beach any Mediterranean resort would be proud of, who wouldn’t want to go there? During the autumn and winter months though the temperatures on this part of the English coast, which faces onto the Irish Sea, drop drastically. That means, if you’re heading that way any time between November and the end of March, you’d need a decent jacket and a scarf to tie your hat on with if you wanted to make use of those picnic tables.

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