Connecting Cumbria broadband project completed
The final phase of rolling out fibre-based broadband across Cumbria has been completed today.
The village of Near Sawrey, the home of Beatrix Potter’s former farm Hill Top, was the last community to ‘go live’ as part of the Connecting Cumbria project.
The scheme has seen Cumbria County Council work closely with Openreach to make fibre-based broadband widely available across Cumbria.
Seventy-six homes and businesses in the village, including Hill Top, which is run as a visitor attraction by the National Trust, can now access some of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK.