A Lakeland Drive
Cumbria. Wed 5 Sep 2018
We stopped and parked beside the road here on the Honister Pass to
eat our lunch
and then drove on to Borrowdale,
stopping in Grange, where there were two more churches, Anglican and
Methodist
and two bridges over the River Derwent , which has a large island
in the middle
The Methodist Chapel now houses a display on the area, The Borrowdale
Story
Inside the C of E, Holy Trinity, built in 1861. Margaret Heathcote
of Grange raised the money and designed it.
We drove on for afternoon tea at Lingholm. The main house was built
by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) in 1870-3
for Col. James Fenton Greenall and named after islands in the lake.
You can arrive on the boats which run
around Derwent Water. Beatrix Potter spent summers there writing.
The cafe which reopened a few years ago
gets very good write-ups, and the cake was OK if overpriced, but the
tea ridiculously weak. Best avoided.
The highlight of the day was the visit to Castlerigg Stone Circle,
a couple of miles east of Keswick, and surrounded
by some marvellous hills. It was a popular place, but the atmosphere
was rather spoilt by two young women
cyclists who leaned their bikes against the stones in the sanctuary
and proceeded to take silly selfies.
It was also one of those days when one of the two cameras I was using
decided spontaneously it would switch
to working in jpeg rather than raw images, making some of these pictures
almost impossible to process to give
decent colour. and good highlight and shadow detail.
From Castlerigg
We drove back over the Whinlatter Pass, which was about to be closed
for the cyclists Tour of Britain, They will
not have time to stop and admire the view, but we parked briefly to
do so.
And as we went thorugh Kirkland I took a picture through the car window
as Ennerdale came into view
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