English Lake District Daily Briefing for Friday 4th June 2008
Updated on Friday at 6.35am
Thursday's Lake District Pictures
Heavy shower clouds covering the Old Man of Coniston [3/6/2008 by Tony Richards]
Allen Knott, Troutbeck with views to what Lake? (click here to see)
Windermere (as a Lake-District-lover I hope you got this right, it was a particularly easy question!) [3/7/2008 See more from Sean McMahon in his Daily Photos Section]
Tuesday's Lake District Pictures
The hospice on Hampsfell summit, near Grange-over-Sands[1/7/2008 by Anne Bowker]
Hampsfell Hospice was built in 1846 by the vicar of Cartmel to provided shelter for travellers, an inscription reads...
"This hospice has an open door,
Welcome alike to rich and poor;
A roomy seat for young and old,
Where they may screen them from the cold:
Three windows that command a view,
To north, to west, and southward too;
A flight of steps requiring care;
A roof that shows a prospect rare;
Mountain and vale you thence survey,—
The winding streams and noble bay.
The sun at noon the shadow hides
Along the east and westward sides.
A lengthened chain holds guard around,
To keep the cattle from the ground.
Kind reader, freely take your pleasure,
But do no mischief to my treasure!"
Other Recent Lake District pictures
A particularly good photo of this classic viewpoint, it is of course Derwent Water from near Friar's Crag at Keswick, but what are the two fells in the middle of the picture called? (click here to see)
Rowling End (1422 ft) leading to Causey Pike with the nobble on top (2035 ft) [taken on Friday 20/6/2008 by Flickr user Joe Dunckley]
I'd Rather Be in the Lake District
This section shows photographs from Lake District Now visitors going about their daily lives. If you would like to take part please take a suitable photograph and .
This magnificent structure near Crook O'Lune, Lancaster, was constructed in 1906 and is part of the Thirlmere to Manchester aqueduct. It carries 4 pipes, each about a metre in diameter over the river. The aqueduct is 95 miles long and is fed solely by gravity, it supplies Manchester with about 40 million gallons of water a day from Thirlmere in the Lake District. [Tuesday 1/7/2008 by David and Edith Brown]
Today's Web Sites
Lakeland Cam - Tony Richards takes pictures of stormy skies
Mad About Mountains - Ann Bowker walks Hampsfell summit, near Grange-over-Sands (Wainwright's Outlying Fells)
Wainwright Wanderings - David and Edith Brown walk Crook O'Lune (Lancaster)
See yesterday's Lake District pictures
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