Identifier: londonnorthweste00eyre (find matches)
Title: The London & North-Western Railway
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Eyre-Todd, George, 1862-1937
Subjects: London and North-Western Railway Railroads -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t, where the sweet unhappy singer, Mrs.Hemans, lived for a time. The voyage ends at last at Waterhead Pier, and atAmbleside, just beyond, with its quaint irregularstreets and profusion of flowers, the pilgrim finds him-self on the threshold of the Wordsworth country. A coach runs over the four miles by Rydal Water toGrasmere, and this, alike for its natural beauty andits poetic memories, remains the most interesting partof Lakeland. Beyond the quaint old Bridge Housethe Knoll was the dwelling where Miss Martineauentertained the authoress of Jane Eyre, and closeby the charming Rydal village rises Rydal Mount,where Wordsworth spent his last most prosperous,least poetic, years. Thence the road runs on by PvydalWater, where Wordsworths Seat is pointed out, aswell as Nab Cottage, where the opium-eater, DeQuincey, and Hartley Coleridge dwelt. Above, itascends the Rothay, and winds along the shore ofGrasmere Lake. Here stands Dove Cottage, whereWordsworth brought home his young wife, Mary 80
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— 2 = ~ JS = - _ • •_! r !> _; ~* !•• -i X uusu c The Lake District Hutchinson, and spent his most poetic years, and whereafterwards, for long, De Quincey lived. Grasmere village, at the north end of the lake, remainsstill remote, delightful, and unspoiled, and might stillafford home and inspiration for a score of poets. Thencethe pilgrim, when he can draw himself away, may takecoach northward over Dunmail Raise, where the lastKing of Cumbria lies under his battle-cairn, and byThirlmere, under the steep side of Helvellyn,to Keswickon Derwentwater, the centre for the Cumberland Lakes.But another coach runs southward by the west sideof Grasmere, between Elter Water and LoughriggTarn, and over the picturesque Brathay Bridge, toConiston, at the head of Coniston Water. Here in the village churchyard lies one of the mostpicturesque of English writers, John Ruskin. Brant-wood, on the opposite shore, was his home in his lateryears, while, as the little steamer sweeps down thelake

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