The Companion Guide to the Lake DistrictComprehensive guide to the Lake District, fully revised and updated. Unimprovably good JOHN LANCHESTER, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS There is hardly a stone in the Lake District that Frank Welsh leaves unturned. From the particular delights of the places with which the Lake Poets are associated - Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Buttermere, Cockermouth - to the remoter parts of the Eden Valley and Furness, over the fells, beside the lakes, through history, topography, archaeology, literature, geology and even bakery, Frank Welsh is the consummate guide and companion, writing with wit, intelligence and true skill. He covers both the less visited, and, in the author's view, unappreciated, parts of the Lake District, as well as those which no visitor will want to miss. |
Contents
Penrith and Environs | 1 |
Ullswater and Haweswater | 28 |
South of Windermere | 51 |
Cartmel | 88 |
Furness | 116 |
Bowness and Windermere | 139 |
Ambleside Rydal and Grasmere | 157 |
Thirlmere Keswick and Derwentwater | 184 |
Derwentwater to Cockermouth | 205 |
High Furness | 232 |
Hawkshead and the Langdales | 254 |
Millom to Ravenglass | 271 |
Wasdale to St Bees | 288 |
Ennerdale to Caldbeck | 310 |
Bibliography | 335 |