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BROOM HILL POINT, DERWENTWATER.
FRIAR'S CRAG BERWENTWATER
ROYALOAK HOTEL
KESWICK
ENCLISH LAKE DISTRICY
DERWENTWATER FROM CASTLE HEAD
DERWENTWATER, BASSENTHYŽAITE S SKIDDAW
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The Haunt of the
Lakeland Poets
HIS ancient Hostelry, formerly the
Oak Inn, has been from the days
of Queen Elizabeth the centre of the
commercial activities and social life of
Keswick. The headquarters in the 18th
century of a thriving packhorse trade,
this inn became, subsequently, no less
renowned as a posting establishment
and halting place for stage coaches.
No less celebrated are the literary asso-
ciations of this house, for it was
frequented by Robert Southey, Samuel
Tayler and Hartley Coleridge, the Words-
worths, Shelley, Thomas De Quincey,
Christopher North and other Lakeland
poets and writers. Here Sir Walter
Scott wrote part of his “Bridal of Trier-
main,” and here too Lord Tennyson and
Robert Louis Stevenson were visitors,
while the “ Skiddaw hermit” and John
Peel of hunting fame were frequently
to be seen within its walls.
W. H. MOSS & SONS, LTD., WHITEHAVEN.
