Jarrold Pathfinder 13 - Lake District
ISBN: 0-7117-0463-5
All the essential ingredients of a mountain landscape grandeur, beauty, ruggedness can be found in the Lake District, yet on a comparatively small scale, making the region welcoming rather than forbidding.
From almost all the major peaks there are views of peaceful, wooded valleys, giving the region an essential 'Englishness' which distinguishes it from the Scottish Highlands and nearby Snowdonia and inspiring some of William Wordsworth's most romantic poetry. Like the spokes on a wheel, a metaphor used by the poet, the lakes radiate from Grasmere, and there are routes here incorporating Derwent Water, Grasmere, Buttermere, Elter Water, Ennerdale, Bassenthwaite Lake, Blea Tarn, Rydal Water, Tarn Hows, Coniston Water, Ullswater, Windermere and Wast Water.
Some of the most beautiful valleys in the Lake District are without lakes Langdale, Dunnerdale and Eskdale and their dramatic hills and fells are also explored, as are other famous Lakeland landmarks from Aira Force waterfalls and Ashness Bridge to Hawskhead and Helvellyn.
All the essential ingredients of a mountain landscape grandeur, beauty, ruggedness can be found in the Lake District, yet on a comparatively small scale, making the region welcoming rather than forbidding.
From almost all the major peaks there are views of peaceful, wooded valleys, giving the region an essential 'Englishness' which distinguishes it from the Scottish Highlands and nearby Snowdonia and inspiring some of William Wordsworth's most romantic poetry. Like the spokes on a wheel, a metaphor used by the poet, the lakes radiate from Grasmere, and there are routes here incorporating Derwent Water, Grasmere, Buttermere, Elter Water, Ennerdale, Bassenthwaite Lake, Blea Tarn, Rydal Water, Tarn Hows, Coniston Water, Ullswater, Windermere and Wast Water.
Some of the most beautiful valleys in the Lake District are without lakes Langdale, Dunnerdale and Eskdale and their dramatic hills and fells are also explored, as are other famous Lakeland landmarks from Aira Force waterfalls and Ashness Bridge to Hawskhead and Helvellyn.