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Page 105:-
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book 4
chapter 1
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BOOK FOURTH.
Between KESWICK and AMBLESIDE.
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Keswick to Ambleside
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CHAP. I.
Castrigg, observations on - Castles of Cumberland - Some
artificials of earth mistaken for forts, which were only the
butts of Archers - Account of the famous Cumbrian Archers -
St John's Chapel - Customs there - Cambden's Account of the
adjacent mountains - Effects of the Water spout of 1749.
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Castlerigg
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WE will now leave Keswick, and ascending the hill towards
Ambleside, to Brow-top, see two houses delightfully
situated, belonging to Mr Dawson and Mr Sewell. This I would
have as my Summer-seat. It commands as good a prospect as
the much-admired place above called Castlerigg, or
Castrigg, and is not so bleak. Mr Gray; when he left
Keswick and travelled towards Ambleside, was very much
pleased with the view, but did not discover it till he came
at the winding turn at Castrigg; if he had looked
about him at Brow-top, he had seen more of the Lakes, and
the objects would not have appeared so diminutive, as when
he was more elevated: his words are, "Mounted on an eminence
called Castlerigg, and the sun breaking out, I discovered
the most enchanting view I have yet seen of the whole valley
behind me. The two lakes, the river, the mountains, all in
their glory; so that I had almost a mind to have gone back."
There is certainly a most enchanting view, as he says (but
of the bird's-eye kind.) Here are seen the mountains of
Borrowdale, Newlands, and Skiddow, and if they be (as he
says,) viewed in a morning just as the sun-beams fall upon
their tops, it makes them appear of a golden hue: below
that, the gloomy woods and azure lakes, with Mr
Pocklington's white house in the midst of Derwent-Lake;
Crossthwaite-church, Mr Brownrigg's Mr Fisher's; the several
white cottages spotting the verdant scene, and the smoke
arising perpendicular from the town of Keswick in a calm
morning. This view even the clown himself cannot but admire,
though so accustomed to it; how much more pleasing then to
the delicate and cultivated fancy of the learned and
curious, who perhaps never before saw such a paradise of
natural beauty.
We will now ascend to the top of Castrigg ; some of
our modern writers say that it took its name from a castle
of the Radcliffs, or Derwentwaters, which stood upon it; and
have gone so far as to tell you, that they built a house
upon the Island called Lord's with the stones of it; none of
them, however, tell whereabouts this castle stood, or find
any the least vestiges of one: Besides, they might get
stones at one twentieth part of the distance, and as there
are no stones that can be wrought with chissels got in this
part of the country, it would be no advantage at all that
they had been made use of before.
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castles
Cumberland
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I do not find any ancient authors mention a castle here,
Speed, who speaks of twenty-five in Cumberland, hath found
out every one I ever heard or knew of, except Kirkoswald;
how that has escaped him I cannot tell. I shall here put
down their names, and, as well as I can, their most ancient
owners, and supposed founders.
1. BEWCASTLE. Built by the Romans, and after the Conquest
repaired by one Bueth, who gave it his own name, viz,
Bueth-castle; he was killed by Robert the
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Vallibus
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gazetteer links
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-- "Armathwaite Castle" -- Armathwaite Castle
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-- "Askerton Castle" -- Askerton Castle
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-- "Bewcastle" -- Bew Castle
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-- "Caldbeck Castle" -- (castle, Caldbeck)
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-- "Castlecarrock Castle" -- (castle, Castle
Carrock)
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-- "Castrigg" -- Castlerigg
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-- "Cockermouth Castle" -- Cockermouth Castle
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-- "Corby Castle" -- Corby Castle
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-- "Daker Castle" -- Dacre Castle
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-- "Drumbugh Castle" -- Drumburgh Castle
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-- "Egremont Castle" -- Egremont Castle
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-- "Greystock Castle" -- (Greystoke Castle,
Greystoke (CL13inc)2)
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-- "Hay Castle" -- Hayes Castle
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-- "Highgate Castle" -- High Head Castle
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-- "Hutton Castle" -- Hutton-in-the-Forest
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-- "Kirkoswald Castle" -- Kirkoswald Castle
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-- "Lynstock Castle" -- Linstock Castle
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-- "Millum Castle" -- Millom Castle
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-- "Naworth Castle" -- Naworth Castle (?)
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-- "Pap Castle" -- Pap Castle
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-- "Penrith Castle" -- (Penrith Castle, Penrith
(CL13inc)2)
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-- "Rowcliff Castle" -- Rockcliffe Castle
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-- "Castlesteads" -- Camboglanna
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-- "Rose Castle" -- Rose Castle
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-- "Scaleby Castle" -- Scaleby Castle
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-- (station, Castlerigg)
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-- "Wulsty Castle" -- Wolsty Castle
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-- "Workington Castle" -- Workington Hall
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