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Page 137:-
The tourist who has complained of the deficiency of
magnificent forest-wood, will here, at least, have found no
reason to renew his complaints, and, indeed, scarcely during
any of the latter part of the tour. The princely residences
of the nobility are scarce in the north country - the halls
of the gentry are not numerous - and the lands being in the
hands of statesmen, who are in general mere
agriculturalists, they look upon wood as exhausting the
fertility of the land.
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Bampton
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At Bampton, the Lowther is joined by the stream which issues
out of Hawes Water. This is a village placed on both sides
of the water. The church, vicarage, and grammar-school, are
on the south side of the vale. The road through this valley
is amidst green enclosures and pretty lanes, bordered by
wild roses, and honeysuckles, and copse-woods, which beguile
the way till you reach the lake.
At Bampton is a free-school, which has produced many great
scholars, especially Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, and
the late Judge Wilson.
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Hawes Water
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HAWES WATER,
Belonging to the Earl of Lonsdale, is a less Ulles Water,
undefiled by bad taste. It is three miles in length, and
generally half-a-mile in breadth, abounding in perch, trout,
eels, and chubs. The eastern side is screened by pretty
wooded rocks, and its western girt by a few cultivated
fields, thinly
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-- Bampton Grammar School (?)
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-- "Bampton" -- Bampton
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-- "Hawes Water" -- Hawes Water
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-- "Lowther Park" -- Lowther Park
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