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Page 30:-
the panorama. In short, Wast Water affords many peculiarities
well worth visiting once, but scarcely sufficient to yield that
increased degree of pleasure in a second or third inspection,
which would be experienced on Derwent, Ullswater, or Windermere.
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The fish of Wast Water are chiefly trout, with which it is well
stored: it also contains a few char. Boats are kept by
neighbouring gentlemen for the diversion of angling; and the
appearance of the Screes from the lake is magnificent. At Nether
Wasdale, about a mile and a half from the foot of the lake, there
are two public houses where travellers may have refreshment for
themselves and horses: there is no other between this and
Rosthwaite in Borrowdale, a distance of fourteen miles, one third
of which is very difficult mountain road.
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Wasdale Head consists of about half a dozen dwellings sheltered
by trees, and a small Chapel, in the midst of an area of arable
land, encircled by the loftiest mountains. A public house here is
much wanted by travellers; on which account the hospitality of
the inhabitants is not unfrequently drawn upon by strangers.
Bowderdale has a single farm house, in a lateral valley opening
near the middle of the lake. At Crook Head, near the foot of the
lake, Stansfield Rawson, Esq. of Halifax, has a neat Gothic
summer residence.
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-- Bowderdale
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-- "Crookhead (?)" -- Crook Head
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-- Nether Wasdale
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-- Screes, The
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-- St Olaf's Church
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-- Strands Hotel
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-- Wasdale Head
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-- Wast Water
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