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Page 144:-
The ride down this vale is pleasant. All the scenes are smiling,
rich, and rural. Every dale-lander appears to be a man of taste,
and every village, house, and cot, is placed in the choicest
site, and decorated in the neatest manner, and style of natural
elegance. Not one formal avenue, or straight-lined hedge, or
square fish-pond, offends the eye in all this charming vale. The
variety of situation gives diversity of views, and a succession
of pleasing objects creates the desire of seeing.
The back view is under a wooded hill, near the fifth mile-post,
and is fine. Here return up the great road to Keswick [1].
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Keswick to Penrith
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From Keswick to Penrith, seventeen miles, of very good road,
through an open wild country.
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roman road
roman camp
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ANTIQUITIES. Upon Hutton-moor, and on the north side of the great
road, may be traced the path of the Roman way, that leads
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[1]
While staying at Keswick it may be worth while to see two museums
kept there. They contain a great variety of fossils, and other
natural curiosities of the country, several pieces of antiquity,
and many other articles.
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gazetteer links
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-- Kewick Museum and Art Gallery
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-- Lorton Vale
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-- Penrith to Keswick
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-- (roman road, Brougham to Moresby)
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Lakes Guides menu.
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