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roads on three sides, has for many years been over-crowded.
Ten years ago, the state of the churchyard, and the health
of the people who lived near it, was such as to make the
opening of a new burial-ground a pressing matter; and hence,
no doubt, arose the new church, though a larger and more
beautiful cemetery might easily have been formed in the
neighbourhood.
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The descent to all the Ambleside inns is steep,- past the
old church, and through a narrow street, and into the space
dignified with the name of the market-place, and actually
exhibiting an ancient market-cross. Half-a-dozen of the few
shops of the town are in or about the market-place, and the
Salutation and Commercial Inns and the White Lion, the three
principal inns, are all conspicuous in it. If his time in
Ambleside is precious, the stranger may use the sunset or
twilight hour for seeing Stockghyll Force, while his supper
is preparing. He is directed or guided through the
stable-yard of the Salutation Inn, when he passes under a
tall grove of old trees on the right hand, the stream being
on the left. On the opposite bank is the bobbin-mill, the
one industrial establishment of Ambleside, placed there on
account of the abundant supply of coppice wood obtainable in
the neighbourhood. The stacks of wood are seen, high up on
the bank; and the ivy-clad dwelling of the proprietor; and
then the great water-wheel, with its attendant spouts and
weir, and sound of gushing and falling waters. Where the
path forks towards and away from the stream, the visitor
must take the left-hand one. The other is the way up
Wansfell. His path leads him under trees, and up and
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