Wordsworth's Guide 1810, edn 1835
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Borrowdale
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Ashness, on the road to Watenlath, and by following the
Watenlath stream downwards to the Cataract of Lodore. This
Lake also, if the weather be fine, ought to be
circumnavigated. There are good views along the western side
of Bassenthwaite Lake, and from Armathwaite at its foot; but
the eastern side from the high road has little to recommend
it. The Traveller from Carlisle, approaching by way of
Ireby, has, from the old road on the top of
Bassenthwaite-hawse, much the most striking view of the
Plain and Lake of Bassenthwaite, flanked by Skiddaw, and
terminated by Wallowcrag on the south-east of Derwent Lake;
the same point commands an extensive view of Solway Frith
and the Scotch Mountains. They who take the circuit of
Derwent Lake, may at the same time include BORROWDALE, going
as far as Bowder-stone, or Rosthwaite. Borrowdale is also
conveniently seen on the way to Wastdale over Styhead; or,
to Buttermere, by Seatoller and Honister Crag; or, going
over the Stake, through Langdale, to Ambleside. Buttermere
may be visited by a shorter way through Newlands, but though
the descent upon the Vale of Buttermere, by this approach,
is very striking, as it also is to one entering by the head
of the Vale, under Honister Crag, yet, after all, the best
entrance from Keswick is from the lower part of the Vale,
having gone over Whinlatter to Scale Hill, where there is a
roomy Inn, with very good accommodation.
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