Sylvan's Pictorial handbook to the English lakes - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ... at this village, he will be much interested with the primitive simplicity of the inhabitants; the simple chapel, which is like most others in this district; is a low oblong building, with a plain porch, similar, in outside appearance, to a labourer's cottage, only at one end a bell hangs, with bell-rope outside, instead of a chimney-pot, which method of hanging the bells is known to antiquaries by the name of bell-turrets, that exist in all their primitive simplicity in the northern country villages in England, and in Wales. In the interior, Walker's pew is still to be seen the same as when r STANLEY GILL. 147 he left it, lined with cloth woven by his own hand, being the only one in the chapel so distinguished. After the tourist has traced the stream from Seathwaite, and gone over the beautiful white stepping-stones, and past Cockley Beck to the Three Shire-Stones at its source from Wrynose, he may either take the road to Eskdale, passing along the base of Hard Knott, half a mile south of Cockley Beck Bridge, or Cockley Brig, as the dalesmen call it, to Esk Bridge; or, he may return to Ulpha, through some of the most wild and beautiful scenery along the valley of the Duddon, called Dunnerdale. If the tourist has no intention of visiting Eskdale by this route, Ambleside may be reached from Seathwaite, by the Walney Scar road through Coniston, a distance of about fourteen miles; the first six miles must be accomplished on foot, as the road over Walna Scar is steep and rocky. From Ulpha the road to Eskdale lies over a desolate Moor, abounding in peat. Passing through the village of Crosbythwaite, having in view Hest and Birkby Fells on the left, at the base of which runs a tributary of the Duddon; Birker and Harter Fells on the right. About three miles from U...