Buttermere and Hasness, Lake District, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles England Buttermere (Lake)

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Buttermere and Crummock Water, Lake District, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles England Buttermere (Lake)

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Borrowdale Valley, from Bowder Stone, Lake District, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles England Buttermere (Lake)

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The Maid of Buttermere

Back home now, back on my own patch, yet the pull of the Lakes refuses to loosen its grip. I cannot leave without telling the tale of the Maid of Buttermere, a story that has clung to the valley like the morning mist on the fells. It is an eighteenth-century mix of beauty, trickery, and ruin, played out against some of the wildest scenery in England.

Mary Robin ...

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Burtness Comb: A Watch Lost and a Frozen River

Burtness Comb hangs above Buttermere like a great green amphitheatre, tucked between High Stile and High Crag. I once picked my way down it during the Lake District Mountain Trial in 1978. Somewhere on that bracken-choked slope, there may still be an orange-faced Omega watch, a twenty-first birthday gift, qui ...

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The Slow Making of Buttermere and Crummock Water

That flat sweep of rich green pasture is not there by chance. It sits on the land bridge between Buttermere and Crummock Water, quietly doing the job of keeping the two lakes apart. It was built by a geological feature known as a fan-delta, courtesy of the steady graft of Mill Beck. ...

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