sentences:  Much more information about Lamplugh is available in "The Parish of Lamplugh" published by the parish council in 1993 , and "Lamplugh Church" published by Lamplugh and District Heritage Society in 2004.Lamplugh is the starting point for a number of walks, and is also on the Sea to Sea / C2C / Coast to Coast Cycle Route, which runs along the roads forming the national park boundary described above.Lamplugh, renamed "Crossbridge", features in two of Melvyn Bragg's novels - "The Hired Man" and "Without a City Wall"
  On 2 June 2010, Lamplugh was the scene of the first murder during the killing spree known as the Cumbria shootings, when Derrick Bird, of Rowrah, shot his twin brother, David, who was a resident of Lamplugh.