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[be]fore the image of the blessed Virgin, the Sunday
following, of a wax candle three pounds weight.
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Penrith Beacon
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Passing through the church-yard, and proceeding past
Hutton-Hall and Bishop-Yards, (a handsome edifice, and the
residence of J. Richardson, Esq;) we arrive at a field
called Bishop's Flatts, from whence is the best view of the
town: the church and some of the principal houses are in
front, and the venerable ruins of the castle in the back
view, whilst the distant mountains close the landscape.
Besides the pleasure of the view, this places serves to
stop, and breath a little, before we ascend the steep hill
on which the beacon stands. The journey is laborious, though
a fine green path renders it more pleasing; but when we
arrive at the beacon, the beautiful and extensive prospect
makes ample amends for all difficulties. If the day be
clear, you see Cumberland spread like an immense map under
you. Nor is your view limited to that alone, Criffell,
Cheviot, and Queensbery-Hill in Scotland, are visible
towards the N.E. though 80 miles distant. On the South, the
mountains from Stainmoor in Westmorland, to Ingleborough in
Yorkshire, rise in various tints of blue and purple. In the
West, Helveylin and St Sunday's Cragg rear their rugged
heads, whilst Ulswater is seen extended like an azure mirror
at their feet; and towards the East, that immense ridge of
mountains called Cross-Fell, extends itself no less than 30
miles in length; which, when covered with its Helm,
exhibits a surprising and singular spectacle. From hence
likewise may be distinctly seen, even with the naked eye,
(provided the day be clear,) Carlisle, the white
house at Gretna Green and Solway Firth; whilst
all the nearer parts of the country offer themselves to the
eye, so beautifully bespotted with villages, woods, heaths,
forests, ruins, and elegant seats, that it must be seen, and
not described, in order to convey away an idea of the
grandeur of this prospect. To assist my reader as much as
possible, I have, in the annexed Plate, drawn lines of
direction to the several objects; let him therefore find one
of them, (Ulswater *, for instance,) and lay the Plan
with the proper line of direction pointing to it; the Plan
will then explain the country round, much better than the
generality of guides will be able to do.
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book 1
chapter 4
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Ullswater
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ULSWATER.
CHAP. IV.
An Old Cairn, -- Dalemain, -- Dacre Castle, -- Hutton
John, -- Powley, -- Dunmallard, -- Benedictine Monastery, --
Carthanic, -- Water-Millock, -- Astonishing Echoes, -- Old
Church, -- Gowbarrow, -- Strange Anecdote of a Clergyman, --
Kailpot Cragg, -- Hallin-Hagg, -- Lyulph's Tower, -- Airey
Force, -- Customs of the Tenure of Airey, -- General Hunting
for the Destruction of Vermin, -- Householm, -- Glencoyn, --
Helveylyn, -- Journey to Helveylyn, -- Patterdale, --
Martindale, -- How-Town, -- Swarth-Beck, -- Cataracts, --
Different Species of Fish, and Manner of fishing, -- Powley,
-- Bower Bank, -- Barton School, -- Barton Church, --
Thorpe, Tirril and Stockbridge, -- Yanwath, -- Dudley Deal,
-- High-Street, -- Dixon's Fall, -- General Account.
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Ullswater
cairn
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WE will next proceed towards Ulswater, being the first Lake
on the Cumberland side of Emont, distant from Penrith 5
1-half miles. The road is extremely pleasant, winding along
the banks of the Emont, through a pleasing scene of culture,
and exhibiting at almost every step a new and striking
landscape. A little beyond the second mile-post there is, on
the left-hand of the road, an ancient cairn, said to have
been raised over a Roman General who was interred here, of
whom Johnston gives the following account.
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A British
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* The line is drawn through the hill, at the foot is
the lake called Dunmallard [lake Ulswater].
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erratum from p.194
for lake Dunmallard, read lake Ulswater.
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gazetteer links
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-- "Bishop Yards" -- (Bishop Yards, Penrith)
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-- (cairn, Stainton)
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-- Penrith Beacon
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-- Patterdale to Penrith
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-- (St Andrew, Penrith (CL13inc)2)
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