Phil Burrows, has scoured the Langdale countryside for 20 years to uncover the elusive hideouts and distilleries of Lancelot “Lanty” Slee, a farmer and quarryman by day, but notorious smuggler of illicit bog-water moonshine by night, but much of the knowledge died with him in 1878, and now exists only in local folklore and hearsay.
Phil made his biggest breakthrough in 2021, when the National Trust recognised his discovery of one of Lanty’s illegal distilleries at High Arnside Farm, but is awaiting permission from them to explore underground.
A former British Military Officer, Eddie went on to study History and then Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University. A keen outdoorsman, he has co-written several books on Outdoor Survival and Wild Camping. Now living in Penrith, Ed is a keen fellrunner.
