dale landers,headed by a Moun cr. Glencoyn Beck. 12 Enter Westmorland. sey, once made a successful 103 cr. Glenridding Beck. 14 stand against a troop of Scottish mosstroopers at this place. The leader was thereafter styled King of Patterdale,a title borne for many years by his descendants. Bilberry Crag. 15 161 A promontory from Birk Fell terminates the second reach. The first island, House Holm. Glenridding House, Rev. H. Askew. This stream takes its rise in Keppel Cove and Red Tarns, which lie near the summit of Helvellyn. That mountain may be ascended through this glen. Place Fell, with a patch of cultivated ground on which are two farm houses lying at its base, has a striking effect on the opposite shore. A mountain road, practicable only for horsemen and pedestrians, conducts through Grisedale into Grasmere. There is a good inn at this place, which, if the Tourist have time, should be made his head quarters for some days, as there is much to see in the neighbourhood. Road into Martindale across Deepdale Beck. The road is now through flat meadows on the banks of the stream, to another branch, which flows from Brother's Water. Hartsope Village. Hayes Water, a tarn well known to 18 the angler, lies between High Street and Grey Crag, two miles above Hartsope. Angle Tarn in the same neighbourhood is noted for the superior flavour of its trout. 6 High Hartsope. Enter the common and climb the pass of Kirkstone. 21 The summit of the pass is 3 fenced in by the Red Screes on the right, and Woundale Head on the left. The large block of stone whose Church-like frame Gives to the savage Pass its namestands on the right of the road. The Romans are supposed to have marched through this depression on their way northwards from the station at Ambleside. Near the summit, a road diverges on the left into the valley of Troutbeck. At the point of deviation, a small inn has lately been erected. In the descent, which is excessively steep, the views of Windermere and the vale of Ambleside are very fine. Wansfell Pike is on the left, Loughrigg Fell on the right of the vale. AMBLESIDE. Inns, Salutation, Commercial. K ON RIGHT FROM PENRITH. 146 XII. PENRITH-SHAP-KENDAL.-26 MILES. From Kendal. From Penrith. ON LEFT FROM PENRITH The Vicarage. At the corner of the field, at the first lane on the right, beyond Eamont Bridge, is King Arthur's Round Table. A short distance down the lane, on the right, is Mayborough, another' relic of the dark ages. The road 243 cr. Lowther Bridge. proceeds through Tirrel and Barton to Pooley Bridge. Clifton Hall, a farm-house, an ancient turretted mansion. Here are the gates leading to the Earl of Lonsdale's magnificent Park of 600 acres, and to the Castle. 23 21 Hackthorpe Hall, also a farmhouse. The birth-place of John fist Viscount Lonsdale. The Lowther family have immense 19 possessions in the neighbourhood. Shap, anciently Heppe, a long 16 straggling village. The remains of an abbey, founded in 1150, are a mile to the west on the banks of the Lowther. Only a tower of the Church is standing, but it appears to have been 14 at one time an extensive structure. A road turns off at Shap to Hawes Water, six miles. Wastdale Head, a granitic 12 mountain, from which blocks, of immense size, have been carIried, by some extraordinary ¡means, into Lancashire and Staffordshire, in one direction, and to the coast of Yorkshire in another, upwards of 100 miles from the parent rock. In order to enter Yorkshire, they must have been drifted over Stainmoor, 1400 feet in elevation. Low-Bridge House, Richard Fothergill, Esq. Three miles north of Kendal from Otter Bank, a beautiful view of that town, with the Castle Hill on the left, is obtained. Hackthorpe Vill. Thrimby Vill. Shap Vill. Inns, Greyhound, King's Arms. Shap Toll Bar. Over the elevated moorish tract called Shap Fells. Steep descent under Bretherdale Bank to Upon Clifton Moor, a skirmish took place in 1745, between! the retreating troops of the Pre5 tender and the army under the Duke of Cumberland, in which fifteen were killed on both sides. Mention is made of this inci7 dent in Waverley. 9 75 Shap Spa, a medicinal spring which annually draws a crowd of visitors, is a mile to the east in the midst of the moor. The water is of nearly similar quality to that at Leamington. There is an excellent hotel in the vicinity of the spring. This is the last stage to Kendal. Whinfell Beacon, 1500 feet. Hollow through which thej Sprint from Longsleddale flows. This narrow and picturesque vale commences near Garnett Bridge, and runs six miles northwards, between steep and rocky declivities. A path at its head crosses Gatescarth Pass, having Harter Fell on the left, and Branstree on the right, into Mardale, at the head of Hawes Water. Benson Knott, 1098 feet. St. George's Church. Inns, King's Arms, Commercial. SYNOPTICAL VIEW OF THE MOUNTAINS OF THE LAKE DISTRICT. Highest Welsh Mountain, Snowdon, Caernarvonshire, 3571 3404 Highest Scottish Mountain, Ben Mucdui, Aberdeenshire, 4418 15,781 Highest Mountain in the World, Dhawalagiri, Asia, 26,862 INDEX. ABBOT-HALL, 12. Arbeia, a Roman Station, 139. Arthur's (King) Round Table, 83,92. BAMPTON, 96. Barf, 57. Barnscar, 137. Barrow House, 50, 139. Belle Field, 127. Belle Isle, 118. Black Sail, 71. Blea Crag, 70. Blea Tarn, 28. Blencathara, 53. Blowick, 95. Borrowdale, 139. Borrowdale Black Lead Mine, 58. Bowness, 122, 127-8. Bowder Stone, 51, 139. Braddyll, Family of, 33. Brathay, The, 27, 30, 122. Bridal of Triermain, Scene of this Brother's Water, 145. Buttermere Haws, 58, 133. CALDER ABBEY, 73, 137. Clifford. Sketch of the more dis- tinguished members of this Fa- Clifton Hall, 146. Clifton Moor, 146. |