68 68 X. PENRITH-ULLES WATER-PATTERDALE--KIRKSTONE- ** Instead of the first five miles and three quarters of the road given below, the Tourist may crous Enont Bridge on the road to Kendal, turning to the right a little beyond, to Yanwath vill, (two miles,) leaving King Arthur's Round Table on the left. Here is Yanwath Hall, an ancient castellated building, a good specimen of the old Westmorland Hall. Sockbridge vill. is a mile further. The hall at this place is a ruin deserving the attention of the artist. Barton church is seen on the right a mile beyond. Pooley Bridge is reached five miles and three quarters from Penrith. It has been recommended, that, in order to see the lower part of Ulles Water to advantage, the Westmoriand margin should be traversed for three or four miles; a boat might be in readiness to convey the stranger across the lake to the road usually taken. ON RIGHT FROM PENRITH. From From Penrith. ON LEFT FROM PENRITH. Road to Keswick. Waterfoot, Col. Salmond. PENRITH. 23 Pursue the Keswick road To reach Pooley Bridge a 18 quarter of a mile distant at the foot of the lake, a turn must be made to the left. There are two inns at this place, where post-horses and boats can be obtained. There is a good view of the lake from Dunmallet, a hill near the village. Road to New Church, so 17 called, in distinction from Old Church, which stood on the margin of the lake. The former was consecrated by Bishop Oglethorpe in 1558, while on his way to crown Queen Elizabeth; an office he had soon) to regret having undertaken, when all the other prelates had refused, for he as well as the other Roman Catholic Bishops were shortly afterwards deprived. This fine park, belonging to cr. the Dacre. ULLES WATER. Rampsbeck Lodge Watermillock. Henry Howard, Esq. of Corby, 15 Enter Gowbarrow Park. contains upwards of 1000 acres. It is well stocked with deer. At Sandwyke, on the opposite margin, a considerable stream! called How Grain enters the lake. 14 Skirsgill, Mrs Parkin. 2 7 94 Dalemain, E.W. Hasell, Esq. Dunmallet,upon which stood a Roman fort. This lake is of a serpentine shape, nine miles long, a mile wide, and about 200 feet in extreme depth. It is divided three by promontories into sections, called reaches, of unequal size, the smallest being the highest, and the largest the middle reach. Four small; islands adorn the uppermost, the scenery around which i of the grandest description. Halsteads, William Marshall, Esq. on a promontory, called Skelley Neb. Hallin Fell projects from the opposite shore, and terminates the first reach. Swarth Fell is below Hallin Fell; between the two, Fusedale Beck enters the lake in the bay termed How Town Wyke. In Gowbarrow Park, says Wordsworth, the lover of Nature might linger for hours. Here is a powerful brook,! which dashes among rocks through a deep glen hung on! every side with a rich and; happy intermixture of native wood; here are beds of luxurian fern, aged hawthorns, and hollies decked with honey suckles; and fallow deer glanc11 ing and bounding over the lawns and through the thickets. A mile above the bridge the stream is precipitated down a fall of eighty feet. Two wooden bridges are thrown across the brook, one above the other, below the fall. The banks are beautifully wooded, and the scenery around of inconceiv able magnificence. Birk Fell rises rapidly from the opposite margin. UN LIGHT FROM PENRITH. From Ambles. From Penrith. ON LEYT FROM PENRITH. Glencoyn House, an old pic- 11 cr. Glencoyn Beck. 12 A promontory from Birk Fell turesque farm house belonging to Mr Howard. Stybarrow Crag. This rock merely allows room for the road between it and the lake. The dale landers,headed by a Moun Enter Westmorland. Bey, 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. 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, al 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 nght of the vale. Enter the common and climb the pass of Kirkstone. AMBLESIDE. Inns-Salutation, Commercial, and White Lion. 15 16 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 pedes trians, conducts through Grisedale into Grasmere. There is a good inn at this place, which, if the Tourist have time, should be made h.s 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. 70 21 Hackthorpe Hall, also a farmhouse. The birth-place of John first 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. 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 High Borrow Bridge, over the Lune. The Eamont and Lowther are tributaries of the Eden, before entering which they form a junction. Brougham Hall, the Windsor of the North. In the vicinity is Brougham Castle, a fine ruin, the property of descendants from "The stout Lord Cliffords that did fight in France." 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. 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 Ken-j dal. Whinfell Beacon, 1500 feet. Hollow through which the 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. |