The Companion Guide to the Lake District

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1997 - Travel - 358 pages
Comprehensive 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
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