Reached Shap whilst walking the coast to coast walk ten years ago; being wet , cold, tired and hungry I was very glad to find this remote village and refresh myself in a cosy pub.

I remember our trips up Shap fell in the 1950’s. My dad’s 1932 Wolseley which had the thermo syphon cooling would boil over about half way up. We would then walk the ditches with a pail looking for water so we could continue back to Northumberland.

As a child in the 60s I remember the family car breaking down on Shap. (We were on the way home to Edinburgh from South Wales). Because we had a foreign car the local garage didn't have the necessary part so we had to be towed back to Kendal by the AA, & spent the night there 'til one arrived. As I was about 7 I thought it was the most wonderful adventure and the mention of Shap still makes me smile. Don't think my dear father felt quite the same.

Lived at Kirkby Thore and then Towcett for a few years back in the 90s. Right on the doorstep to the North Lakes. Now I look back on my life, I wish to have those days back again.

2012 and Shap was on our chosen route from John O'Groats to Land's End during the very wet June that year. As we three approached the summit, before over nighting in Kendal, the rain was horizontal at 40 mph. We abandoned for the day and were very glad of the support car to take us to Kendal. The very name "Shap" has horrendous memories for us. We did complete the trip in 12 days over 970 miles and burning 65000 calories!

Been with Dad driving a delivery van in the late 40s to Scotland over Snap, the transport cafe stop was the Jungle cafe, usual time was about 11 hours to Glasgow. Driving with our family up the M6, - 3 and a half hours, Dad would never believe us.

I lived in Bowness in the 70s I went to Kendal college. Some of the students in our class where from Shap. At the slightest hint of bad weather they would be sent home because the road always became blocked

I'm sure the old Gadners thrived on that route with their cool running engines and endless ability to plod on

Like Olwen below, I too recall the Shap. In 66 we journeyed north to Scotland in an Austin A30. We went up the Shap. In one day we travelled from Hebden Bridge to Stirling. Yeah believe it, in a week we covered nearly 1000 miles :0 As a kid I recall winters when the news showed HGV drivers in long queues stuck on Shap in horrendous snow falls. Brave guys, they did their bit for Britain.

Shap springs to mind when I think of wild orchids. I remember seeing many pure white Early Purple Orchids at the roadside there!

I started driving trucks well before the M6 was built. It wasn't the steepest road but one of the longest I wasn't stranded up there in the winter but plenty were.When this happened those carrying foodstuffs came in the very handy to starving truckers who could be stuck up there for a couple of days. Landmarks over the pass were the Jungle Cafe and the Leyland clock just before the summit. The clock is now situated in Kendal town centre. Happy days.

I'm from Slelsmergh, Kendal, near the Shap Road and remember the huge snowdrifts of 1963. It was like a Paradise since we had hundreds of trees to climb without the interference of the PC brigade. I wish I had a Time Machine. Such freedom and happy memories.

Synonymous with the railway, yet so much more to Shap than many realise...great little video, great intro music too. Thanks for posting.

Near the end of the section on railways you can just hear music from the British Transport Films "Snow."

Its a great driving biking road if you start from Penrith down Ullswater to patterdale up kirkstone pass down into Ambleside over to Kendal pick up the shap road and back to Penrith , brilliant road.

I remember driving the Shap with my Mum and sister in her wee red Viva. One day the fog was so bad that I had to walk beside the car to help her find the edges of the road. Perilous trip but beautiful country!

It's a heck of a climb on a bicycle that is well loaded with camping gear. (Long distance cycling). A couple of cans of stimulant drink helped, but if I could I would go north or south on the East side of England.

My father in law was called Huck. His dad lived in Roland House, Appleby. Apparently a well known family in the Shap area.

from Fraser, husband of Leslie I first travelled over Shap in 1965 going north to visit my grandparents in Scotland, and the only way I have managed to work out the year is because we stopped at a transport cafe somewhere near Shap, but not in the village. Somebody had put "Catch the Wind" by Donovan on the juke box, and must have put in a large sum in change, because it just repeated itself on and on. This would have been early morning because my father didn't like day driving on roads that were very heavily trafficked, there was no M6 then, in fact I remember seeing it being built. I also remember seeing the heavy trucks of Smith, with "Smith for Service" on the side. What transport cafe would this have been ?

Nice scenery

What is not often realised is that the Penrith - Carlisle section of the A6 is a killer stretch of road.

A nice fish and chip shop in shap , and cheaper than the motorway cafes

Great stuff👍👍

Straight after the war my grandfather bought a truck and used to deliver groupage to Glasgow every week so did shap twice a week. I can’t remember what truck he had but apparently he slept on a wooden board across the gearbox hump.

went over shap many times one hell of a road before m6 i think there was a cafe called the jungle

“We’ve come on holiday by mistake”.

I’m a trucker and went over shap on t Wednesday

My mother in law took 12 hours to go to Blackpool in the old days overnight from Hamilton they said driver are we at the shap yet because the buses in those days brakes where not so good 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

02:21 lovely glasses

Played cricket there got a golden duck never went back

I live 7 miles from here. The local joke is SHAP = In between S**t and C**p!

Shap. Twinned with Tebay 😤

I love an old organ.

The pub at the top of Shap fell on a winters night on a motorbike wearing jeens and parka and having to leave the fire behind at closing time and rida to Northumberland in white out conditions. Young and very stupid. But would do it again..

Withnail and I filmed there .