Category: Travel Writing
Our first walk is naturally to climb the Coniston Old Man. By the easiest route, which fortunately is the most interesting, there is a path to the top; good as paths go on mountains--that is, plain to find--and by its very steepness and stoniness all the more of a change from...
By 1773 a new site was needed for the smithy, and it was moved to Bridge End, where the Post Office now stands, on land bought from William Pennington of Kendal, wool comber, by...
1. Part 1Our first walk is naturally to climb the Coniston Old Man. By the easiest route, which fortunately is the most interesting, there is a path to the top; good as paths go on mount...
2. Part 2The island itself was for a while known as Montague Island, from its owner. It was sometimes called the "Gridiron," for it is made up of a series of bars of rock, so to say, wit...
6. Part 6All these have been bloomeries of a somewhat similar kind, and on Peel Island some iron works have been carried on of a rather different type, and perhaps at a different period....
3. Part 3It is right to add that some antiquaries make the names beginning with Coning-or Coni-to mean the Rabbits'-town, Rabbits'-head, Rabbits'-garth, and so forth, and yet even in Ice...
5. Part 5To resume Dr. Gibson's account:--"The new building is plain even to meanness; but being now well screened by trees and flourishing evergreens--and I may state that evergreens gr...
4. Part 4But when Sir Richard married Elizabeth of Urswick, and got with her the manors of Urswick, Coniston, Carnforth, and Claughton, they chose to live at Coniston; and being wealthy,...
8. Part 8THIS FIRST-CLASS ESTABLISHMENT is the most delightfully situated of any Hotel in the Lake District. It is surrounded with beautiful pleasure grounds and select walks, from which...