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Page 29:-
turn which would lead him down again to Tent Lodge, the
stranger has rather a steep ascent before him, from point to
point of which he finds, on looking behind him, new views of
the lake appearing, while the magnitude of the Old Man
becomes more apparent as he recedes from it. By the
roadpost, which indicates the two ways to the two sides of
the lake, he finds his car; and then he proceeds through a
wild country - moorland, sprinkled with grey rock,- in the
direction of Hawkshead, which is three miles from Waterhead.
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Hawkshead
Esthwaite Water
Priest Pot
1745 Rebellion
Crier of Claife
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The parish church of Hawkshead is ancient; its appearance is
venerable; and it stands, as a church should do, in full
view of the country round,- of the valley in which Esthwaite
Water lies. Elizabeth Smith lies buried there; and there is
a tablet to her memory in the churchyard. At the ancient
Grammar School of Hawkshead, Wordsworth and his brother were
educated. Passing through the neat little town, the road
turns to the left, to reach the northern end of Esthwaite
Water, which is two miles long, and half a mile broad;- a
quiet sheet of water, with two promontories stretching into
it, which appear like islands, nearly dividing it into a
chain of ponds. A round pond at the northern end of the
lake, connected with it by a narrow creek, exhibits a
strange phenoemenon. It has a floating island,- not like
that of Derwentwater, which is a mass of mud and vegetable
tangle,- but actually bearing trees: and this island is
carried by strong winds from the one side to the other. The
name of the pond is Priest's Pot: a fact which be explain by
a tradition that a priest was drowned there; and others by a
supposition of its
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-- Esthwaite Water
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-- (floating island, Priest Pot)
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-- Hawkshead Grammar School
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-- "Priest's Pot" -- Priest Pot
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-- St Michael and All Angels Church
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