John Dalton's childhood home at Eaglesfield near Cockermouth is one of the secrets of the Lake District. It is now on the John Dalton Way - a walk that takes you from Cockermouth down to Sellafield where John Dalton's work on atoms has been applied industrially. I was interested to note that he was credited with recognising colour blindness because I saw a programme recently on James Clerk Maxwell which said he'd found out why colour blindness happens.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Projects/Johnson/Chapters/Ch4_2.html You can see over into Scotland from Eaglesfield, almost to near where Maxwell lived.
