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wears a modern appearance, and although deprived of many of
those delightful studies which enamoured the artist Green,
possesses more of internal comfort. The chapel, standing at
the north end of the town, on an elevated station, was
rebuilt in 1822, by a rate; it had been made parochial in
1675, by the Bishop of Chester. The town also reaps the
benefit of a well-endowed grammar-school, founded by John
Kelswick in 1721.
Such is the suitable position of Ambleside, that several
short walks and excursions may be taken; and these again can
be agreeably varied by others of greater distance, and
requiring longer time.
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Stockghyll Force
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STOCKGILL FORCE
Rises in the Screes on Scandale Fells, not far from
Kirkstone, and divides the town of Ambleside. The finest
part of the stream is between the Woollen Mill and the
Force. In looking up the river from its bed, the Pike of
Wansfell forms a fine apex. Proceeding along the edge of a
chasm for a short distance, the Fall bursts upon the sight
of the visitor, when standing on the brink of the precipice
opposite to it, and at a point midway between the top and
bottom. Its height is about one hundred and fifty feet, and
it is divided at the summit by a huge crag into two streams,
which again unite before they are finally precipitated into
the basin below; from which the waters rush along a gill,
luxuriantly adorned with rock and wood, and wind-
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-- "Ambleside" -- Ambleside
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-- (school, Ambleside)
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-- St Anne's Church
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-- Stock Ghyll
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-- "Stockgill Force" -- Stockghyll Force
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