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Martineau 1855

Notes about transcription.
Guide book description.

Pages list.
Keyword index.
Martineau's index.
Plates and Outline views.
Raw data.
Garnett's map.

synopsis


cover
half title page

frontispiece
  Aira Force

title page
  author
  illustrator
  map maker
  publisher

  imprint

preface

contents

index

list of plates

errata

Windermere
  railway
  Orrest Head
  Elleray
  outline view
  Mountains on the West Side of Windermere

  development
  St Mary's College


Bowness-on-Windermere
  boats
  inns

  paintings
  Lindsey Aspland

  St Martin, Bowness-on-Windermere
  Windermere Ferry
  Storrs
  Christopher North

  print
  Windermere from near Storrs

  Rayrigg
  Miller Brow
  steamer trip
  drainage

  print
  Windermere from Lowood Hotel

  Rothay
  Brathay

  sailing
  rowing boats


first tour
  Furness Abbey and Coniston
  bobbin mills
  charcoal burning
  Furness Abbey
  Coniston Water
  ravens
  Elizabeth Smith

  print
  Coniston from the Wood above Bank Ground

  Hawkshead
  Esthwaite Water
  Priest Pot
  1745 Rebellion
  Crier of Claife

  Windermere Ferry
  char


second tour
  Patterdale and Ambleside
  Troutbeck
  High Street

  Kirkstone Pass
  Ullswater
  Aira Force
  print
  Upper Reach of Ullswater

  Ambleside
  St Mary's Church

  inns
  Stockghyll Force


third tour
  Skelwith and Grasmere
  Clappersgate
  Skelwith
  Skelwith Force
  Loughrigg Tarn
  High Close

  print
  Grasmere from Red Bank

  Red Bank
  Grasmere

  inns
  Easedale

  Wordsworth's grave
  Dove Cottage
  Rydal Water
  Nab Cottage

  print
  Rydal Water

  Rydal Mount
  Rydal Falls

mountain walk
  Fairfield
  stone walls
  sheep

  silence
  rain gauges
  views from Fairfield
  outline view
  Mountains seen a little beyond Rydal Mount


Keswick area
  Swan Inn
  Sir Walter Scott

  Dunmail Raise
  Thirlmere
  Armboth House

  outline view
  Mountains seen from the West Side of Thirlmere

  Castle Rock
  Lord Clifford
  Castlerigg
  Southey's grave

  print
  Vale of Keswick

  Flintoft's relief map
  Crosthwaite's museum

  inns

Keswick excursions
  Derwent Water
  St Herbert
  Derwentwater Family

  print
  Derwent Water from Castle Head

  floating island

Keswick, first tour
  Borrowdale valley
  Watendlath
  Rosthwaite

  Borrowdale
  tales

  cuckoo
  Bowder Stone
  Grange

  Lodore Falls

Keswick, second tour
  Newlands and Crummock Water
  woollens
  Newlands Valley
  Scale Force
  outline view
  Mountains seen from Lanthwaite Wood

  Crummock Water
  Scale Hill Inn

  Lanthwaite Wood

Keswick, third tour
  around Bassenthwaite
  Bassenthwaite Lake
  floods

Keswick, fourth tour
  ascent of Skiddaw
  map
  compass
  mountain guide

  views from Skiddaw
  outline view
  Mountains seen from Applethwaite near Keswick


Keswick, fifth tour
  ascent of Saddleback
  Castlerigg Stone Circle
  sacrifice
  counting stones

  Souther Fell
  ghosts

  Scales Tarn
  noonday stars
  Sharp Edge

  Bowscale Tarn
  noonday stars
  immortal fish


Lake District excursions

Lakes, first tour
  Keswick, Gowbarrow, Patterdale, Ambleside
  Hutton Moor
  Hayes Water
  Brothers Water

  outline view
  Mountains seen on the Keswick Road approaching Ullswater


Lakes, second tour
  Wasdale
  Black Combe
  Duddon Valley
  St John's Church, Ulpha
  Greek and Latin

  Wonderful Walker
  church and chapel

  Birker Fell
  radiating valleys

  Stanley Gill
  Strands
  The Screes

  Wrynose Gap
  Three Shire Stones

  Seathwaite and Seathwaite
  lost walker

  Hardknott Pass
  Eskdale


Lakes, third tour
  Gosforth, Calder Bridge, Ennerdale, Loweswater
  Wast Water
  The Screes

  print
  Wastwater

  Wasdale Head
  Ritson's farmhouse
  whittlegate
  washing children

  Kirk Fell
  lost walker

  Calder Abbey
  Cold Fell
  Egremont
  horn of Egremont

  Black Sail Pass
  lost walker
  mountain guides

  Blake Fell
  mountain guide
  rain

  Loweswater lake
  Scale Hill Inn


Lakes, fourth tour
  Honister Pass, Borrowdale, Keswick
  Grasmoor
  storm
  flood

  Buttermere lake
  Honister Pass

  print
  Honister Crag from the Quarry Road to Yew Crag

  quarrymen
  slate

  Borrowdale
  erosion
  rain
  floods
  change

  agricultural change
  drink

  emigration
  railways
  education

  witchery
  need fire
  superstition
  cheese


passes
  mountains


Stake Pass
  Millbeck Farm
  Dungeon Ghyll Force
  Langdale Chapel
  Blea Tarn, Langdale
  Stickle Tarn
  tarns
  floods

  Langdale Pikes
  Green Family
  snow

  Esk Hause

Sty Head Pass
  Borrowdale
  wild boar
  eagles
  shepherds

  print
  Borrowdale near the Bowder Stone

  Stockley Bridge
  black lead mine

  Borrowdale Yews

ascent of Scawfell
  Ordnance Survey
  mountain guides

  view from Scawfell
  storm


Scarth Gap

ascent of Helvellyn
  Grisedale
  Swirrel Edge
  Striding Edge
  Charles Gough

  view from Helvellyn

Old Man of Coniston
  Walna Scar
  Ordnance Survey
  copper mines


Hawes Water
  Nan Bield Pass

  Penrith
  Giant's Grave

  Brougham
  Hawes Water
  Mardale

  Dun Bull, Mardale
  butter

  weather
  Nan Bield Pass
  Kentmere
  Bernard Gilpin
  Kentmere Tarn


weather
  rainfall


statistics
  altitudes of mountains
  altitudes of passes
  sizes, depths and altitudes of lakes
  heights of waterfalls

flowers, mosses and ferns
  Windermere area
  Cumberland
  collectors


directory
  Windermere
  Bowness-on-Windermere
  Newby Bridge
  Near and Far Sawrey
  Troutbeck
  Ambleside, Rydal
  The Langdales
  Coniston
  Grasmere
  Hawkshead
  Keswick
  Portinscale
  Bassenthwaite
  Underskiddaw

  Braithwaite
  Thornthwaite
  Borrowdale
  Wythburn
  Legburthwaite
  Vale of St John

  Threlkeld
  Loweswater
  Buttermere
  Patterdale
  Hawes Water
  Wasdale Head
  Ennerdale and Kinniside
  Nether Wasdale
  Eskdale
  Birker and Austhwaite
  Brackenthwaite
  Dunnerdale
  Seathwaite

  Ulpha

advertisements
  Windermere Hotel
  print
  Windermere from near the Hotel

  set of prints
  Lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland

  set of prints
  Harwoods Splendid Views in the Lake District

  letter paper
  notelets

  Harwoods Views in the Lake District
  Harwoods artist's materials
  Royal Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere
  print
  Ullock's Royal Hotel

  Royal Mail steamers
  Brockbank's lodgings
  Garnett's artist's materials
  Garnett's Views of the English Lakes and Mountains
  Harriet Martineau's Guide to Windermere
  Harriet Martineau's Complete Guide to the English Lakes
  Crown Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere
  Gibb's Hotel, Stirling
  print
  Windermere from the Crown Hotel

  William Banks, printer
  Commercial Hotel, Ambleside
  Waterhead Nrsery, Ambleside
  Slater's Temperance Hotel, Ambleside
  Swan Hotel, Newby Bridge
  White Lion, Ambleside
  Furness Abbey Hotel
  Queen's Hotel, Ambleside
  Derwentwater Hotel, Portinscale
  Hayton's lodgings, Bowness-on-Windermere
  Waterhead Inn, Coniston
  King's Head, Legburthwaite
  print
  Waterhead Hotel, Coniston

  pictures by Mr and Mrs Lindsey Aspland
  Victoria Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere
  History and Antiquities of Furness Abbey
  King's Arms Hotel, Keswick
  Derwentwater Record
  St Mary's College, Windermere

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