WELCOME TO RAVENSTONEDALE PARISH HISTORY GROUP
How to Join
RPHG
There are two membership categories. Ordinary Members pay £7 per year and a £4 attendance fee for talks. Please consider becoming a Friend of RPHG for £50 per year if you would like to give RPHG additional support to help us budget for our ongoing costs – monthly rent for the archive room at RCHC, hire of meeting rooms and speakers, and purchase of archive-standard storage boxes and folders. Friends do not have to pay to attend a talk.
Both categories of RPHG members automatically become members of Cumbria Local History Federation.
Please fill in the contact form below if you would like to join us and we will get back to you with details. Your email address will not be made public.
MEMBERSHIP FORM
RPHG ARCHIVE CATALOGUE
Current members may also request a login and password to view and comment on our growing online catalogue Ravenstonedale Archives hosted by Cumbria Local History Federation. Click on our Squirrel logo below to see the Home Page. Should your membership lapse then your login and password to the archive site will no longer be valid.
Talks
Programme
2026-2027
Wednesday 16th September 2026
2.30pm in Newbiggin-on-Lune Public Hall. The History of Lakeland Dialect by Jean Scott-Smith.
Wednesday 21st October 2026
7.30pm in Ravenstonedale Community & Heritage Centre. More Musings of a Taphophile by Bev Brummitt.
Wednesday 18th November 2026
2.30pm in Newbiggin-on-Lune Public Hall. The Making of the Stainmore Railway 200 Textile Panel by Anne Taylor. Anne will bring the panel for display and will be accompanied by some of the members of the Kirkby Stephen U3A crochet and creative textiles groups who also contributed to the panel.
Wednesday 9th December 2026
7.30pm in Ravenstonedale Community and Heritage Centre. RPHG Christmas get-together on a bring-and-share basis.
Wednesday 17th February 2027
7.30pm in Ravenstonedale Community and Heritage Centre. Monastic Lands in North Westmorland by Les Neal.
Wednesday 17th March 2027
7.30pm in Ravenstonedale Community and Heritage Centre. Cattle Droving in Cumbria – the Whys and Wherefores of a Long-distance Trade by David Johnson.
We play an important role in documenting the parish’s history – both as volunteer archivists preserving records and as volunteer historians interpreting stored documentation.