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| viewpoint, Low Pike | ||
| site name:- | Low Pike | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | viewpoint | |
| coordinates:- | NY373077 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3707 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by
William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in
London, 1778 to 1821. goto sourcePage 75, footnote:- "..." "Also, if the tourist love mountainous prospects, he may meet with one, in about a three hour's ride from this place, that will not fail to please him. It is on Low-pike, in Rydal-park, from whence may be seen many of the lakes, as Rydal-water, Grasmere-water, Windermere-water, Blencow-tarn, Elter-water, Esthwaite-water, and Coniston-water, also the Isle of Walney, Pile of Foudry, the whole of Duddon, Ulverston, Lancaster, and Millthorp Sands; the mountain Ingleborough, and at an opening between two hills, the hideous rocks of Borrowdale. A further walk of about an hour will give view of Skiddaw, Helvellyn, Ulls-water, the Vale of St. John, and other parts of Cumberland.- This mountainous excursion over, the following lines may not unaptly be introduced to the reader's notice.-" "Descending now from AEther's pure domain, / By fancy borne to roam the nether plain, / Behold all-winning novelty display'd / Along the vale, the mountain, and the shade, / The scenes but late diminutive, resume / Their native grandeur, and their wonted bloom. / The woods expand their umbrage o'er the deep / And with ambitious aim ascend the steep, / Stage above stage, their vig'rous arms invade, / The tallest cliffs, and wrap them in the shade. / Each in its own pre-eminence regains / The high dominion of the subject plains / Smiling beneath, such smiles the people wear, / Happy in some paternal monarch's care." "Killarney; X." |
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| person:- | author : West, Thomas |
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| date:- | 1778 |
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| period:- | 18th century, late | |
| period:- | 1780s | |
| item:- | guide book; Guide to the Lakes |
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