A new sign has been installed to point visitors to the Lake District grave of novelist Hugh Walpole.
The celebrated author, who died in Keswick in 1941, is buried in the churchyard of the town’s St John’s Church.
On Thursday, members of the Hugh Walpole Society celebrated his life at a special service at the church and led by society chairman Nick Redman, unveiled the new sign pointing to Sir Hugh’s grave.
Sir Hugh was a major cultural figure in the 1920s and 1930s, dividing his time between his home in London and his house Brackenburn, overlooking Derwentwater.
His historical epic The Herries Chronicles was a sequence of novels following the fortunes of a Cumbrian family from the 18th century to the 1930s.
In 1941, after giving a speech in Keswick, and leading a march to raise funds for the war effort, Sir Hugh was taken ill and died.
