button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.84-85
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Langdale Chapel to Grasmere, and Rydal Waters, which leave on the left, and over Pelter Bridge to Ambleside. Or from Sty Head, leaving the Tarn to the right, pass through Seathwaite, Rosthwaite (where there is an ale-house), and Stonethwaite; and, keeping Eagle Crag on the right, ascend a steep hill, from the top of which, by proceeding some time south-east, come to the head of Easedale; descend into the valley, and passing Grasmere church return to Ambleside.
The horse-road from Ambleside is over Hard Knott, and Wrynose, through Eskdale by Sandholme Bridge, to the public house in Nether Wastdale; from thence, to Wastdale Head, and over the Sty through Seathwaite, Stonethwaite, and over Borrowdale Stake, through Great Langdale to Ambleside: Or from Seathwaite by Rosthwaite to Keswick, and back to Ambleside, as may suit the inclination of the traveller.
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The carriage-road from Ambleside is through Coniston, Broughton, and over Birker Fell (a road somewhat rugged), by Sandholme Bridge to Nether Wastdale, (enquire at Broughton about the tides) by Bootle, Ravenglass, or by Muncaster: - As such who take this tour in a carriage, must not only approach, but return from the lake through Nether Wastdale, they will proceed up its side only as far as they find it pleasant.
The bridges on Nether and Over Becks are not of the safest, for, being narrow and shabbily fenced (that is picturesquely), some will not venture their carriages over them. The writer in company with a friend, passed in a gig, in 1809, that on Nether Beck, and would have found no hesitation in proceeding, but having arrived at Over Beck, a sight of Yew-barrow, Gable, and Scho-fell, from that place, was deemed sufficient.
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