failure, settled at Townson Ground, and some years later built
Tent Lodge, so called from the tent his family had pitched on the
spot before the house was built, as a kind of "station," as it
was then called, for admiring the view. Here in the tent, they
say, his daughter used to sit, dying of consumption, and looking
her last on the favourite scene. Elizabeth Smith was a girl of
great charm and unusual genius. Born in 1776, at thirteen she had
learnt French, Italian, and mathematics; at fifteen, she taught
herself German; at seventeen, she studied Arabic, Persian, and
Spanish; and at eighteen, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. While living
here she wrote much verse and many translations, of which her
_Book of Job_ was highly commended by scholars; the manuscript in
her handwriting, with a copy of her portrait, may be seen in the
Coniston Museum. She died in 1806, and is buried at Hawkshead.
After the death of Mrs. Smith, Tent Lodge was bought by Mr.
Marshall, and occupied by Tennyson the poet on his honeymoon.
His favourite point of view is still marked in the wood above
by a seat now hidden among the trees. Later, the Misses Romney,
descendants of the famous painter, lived at Tent Lodge; then it
was taken by the late George Holt, Esq., of Liverpool.
At Colonel Smith's removal to the Lodge, Tent Cottage, as it is
now called, was taken by Mrs. Fletcher, one of whose daughters
became Lady Richardson and another married Dr. Davy, brother of
Sir Humphrey Davy. Dr. Townson succeeded them at the Cottage;
then Mr. Oxley of the sawmills; then the Gasgarths, on their
removal from the Hall; then Mr. Evennett, agent to Mr. Marshall.
Afterwards it was taken by Mr. Laurence Jermyn Hilliard, secretary
to Mr. Ruskin. Mr. Hilliard died in 1887 just as he was beginning
to be well known as an artist; he is commemorated in a brass
tablet in the church, and some examples of his work are to be seen
in the Museum. Since his death Tent Cottage has been tenanted by
his brother and sister.
In 1819 Mr. Thomas Woodville bought from Sir D. Fleming a house
called Yewdale Grove at Yewdale Bridge. In 1821 Mr. Binns of
Bristol built the Thwaite House, and let it in 1827 to Mr.
William Beever, a Manchester merchant, who died four years later,
leaving two sons and four daughters, whose memory is very closely
associated with Coniston. John, the eldest son, was a sportsman
and naturalist; the author of a little volume entitled _Practical
Fly-fishing_, published in 1849, and republished 1893, a memoir
of the author (now again out of print). The pond behind the
Thwaite was made by him, and stocked with fish; once a year he
used to catch every member of his water colony, and examine it
to note its growth. The picturesque "Gothic" boat house, now the
gondola house, was built for his use. One of his hobbies was the
improvement of fishing-rods, and Mr. William Bell (afterwards J.P.
of Hawes Bank, who died in 1896) remembered helping Mr. Beever
in this and other carpentering, turning, carving, and mosaic
works, and in the construction of the printing press used for his
sister's little books. John Beever died in 1859, aged 64. His
brother Henry was a Manchester lawyer, and died 1840.
Of the four ladies of the Thwaite, Miss Anne Beever died in 1858,
and is buried with her brothers at Hawkshead. Miss Margaret (d.
1874), Miss Mary (d. 1883), and Miss Susanna (d. 1893) are buried
at Coniston; their graves are marked by white marble crosses
close to Ruskin's. Indeed, though their local influence and
studies, especially in botany (see, for example, Baxter's _British
Flowering Plants_ and Baker's _Flora of the Lake District_, to
which they contributed, and the Rev. W. Tuckwell's _Tongues in
Trees and Sermons in Stones_, describing their home), give them
a claim to remembrance, their name is most widely known through
Miss Susanna Beever's popular _Frondes Agrestes, readings in
"Modern Painters,"_ and through the correspondence of Ruskin
with Miss Mary and Miss Susanna published as _Hortus Inclusus_.
In his preface to the last he spoke of them as "at once sources
and loadstones of all good to the village in which they had their
home, and to all loving people who cared for the village and its
vale and secluded lake, and whatever remained in them, or around,
of the former peace, beauty, and pride of English Shepherd Land."
The old Thwaite Cottage, below the house, was tenanted by the
Gaskarths after the death of David Kirkby, Esq., the last of the
former owners, in 1814; and then for many years it was the home
of Miss Harriette S. Rigbye, daughter of Major E. W. Rigbye of
Bank Ground, and an accomplished amateur of landscape painting.
She died in 1894, aged 82, and is buried beside her friends the
Beevers in Coniston Churchyard. The Thwaite Cottage was then let
to Professor J. B. Cohen of the Leeds University, whose works on
organic chemistry are well known.
The Waterhead estate was bought in the eighteenth century from the
Thompsons by William Ford of Monk Coniston (see Mr. H. S. Cowper's
_History of Hawkshead_, p. xvi.), and came to George Knott (d.
1784) by marriage with a Miss Ford. Mr. Knott was mentioned by
Father West as having "made many beautiful improvements on his
estate." In 1822 a view of the modern "Gothic" front of the
house, now called Monk Coniston Hall, was given in the _Lonsdale
Magazine_. The poet Wordsworth is said to have advised in the
laying out of the gardens. From Mr. Michael Knott the place was
bought by James Garth Marshall, Esq., M.P. for Leeds, whose son,
Victor Marshall, Esq., J.P., still holds it.
Holywath was built by Mr. John Barratt, the manager of the mines
in their prosperous days, and afterwards held by his daughter,
the wife of Colonel Bousfield. Mr. William Barratt, his cousin,
built Holly How on the site of an old cottage; it was afterwards
tenanted by Mrs. Benson, and is now occupied by Mrs. Kennington.
Mr. William Barratt's son, James W. H. Barratt, Esq., J.P., now
lives at Holywath.
In 1848 Miss Creighton of Bank Ground built Lanehead, on the site
of the old Half-penny Alehouse, for Dr. Bywater, who tenanted it
for many years. Miss Creighton left the estate to the Rev. H. A.
Starkie; the house was occupied later by Mrs. Melly, and since
1892 by W. G. Collingwood.
Coniston Bank replaces the old homestead of Townend. It was held
in 1819 by Thomas North, Esq.; in 1849, by Henry Smith, Esq.; in
1855, by Wordsworth Smith, Esq.; subsequently by Major Benson
Harrison, who let it for a time to George W. Goodison, Esq., C.E.,
J.P., and then to Thomas Docksey, Esq. In 1897 it was sold to Mrs.
Arthur Severn, who sold it to its present occupant, H. P. Kershaw,
Esq.
Brantwood, that is to say the nucleus of the present house, was
built at the end of the eighteenth century by Mr. Woodville on
a site bought from the Gaskarths. It was sold to Edward Copley,
Esq., of Doncaster, whose widow died there in 1830. In 1849 it
was in the occupation of Josiah Hudson, Esq., and the early home
of his son, the Rev. Charles Hudson, a founder of the Alpine
Club, and one of the party of young Englishmen who first climbed
Mont Blanc without guides. He joined in the first ascent of the
Matterhorn, 1865, and was killed in the accident on the descent.
The next resident was an artist, poet, and politician. Mr. William
James Linton was born at Mile-End Road in the east of London in
1812; his father was of Scotch extraction. After apprenticeship
to a wood engraver at Kennington, he worked for the _Illustrated
London News_, and mixed with artists and authors of the Liberal
and advanced party, becoming known as a writer, editor, and
lecturer of much energy on the Radical side. In 1849 he left
London for Miteside in West Cumberland, and in May, 1852, moved
to Brantwood; after a year's tenancy he bought the little house
and estate of ten acres, to which on the enclosure of the common
six acres more were added. At Brantwood he also rented the garden
and field between the house and the lake, and kept cows, sheep,
and poultry; he anticipated Ruskin in clearing part of the land
and cultivating it; in his volume of _Memories_ (Lawrence &
Bullen, 1895) he records the pleasures of his country life, as
well as some of the trials of that period. He had been editing,
and publishing at his own expense, a monthly magazine called
_The English Republic_, and this was taken up again in 1854.
Two young printers and a gardener came to Brantwood and offered
their services, as assistants in this work; and with their help
the magazine was printed in the outhouse, which he decorated
with mottoes, such as "God and the People"--still to be traced
in the roughcast on the wall. But its cost, however economically
produced, was more than he could afford, and the magazine was
dropped in April, 1855, after which he was employed on the
woodcuts for the edition of Tennyson's poems illustrated by
Rossetti, Millais, and other artists of the period. He tells how
Moxon came to call on him and hasten the work, but could not be
received into the house owing to serious illness; and how thankful
he was for a ten-pound note put into his hand by the considerate
publisher as they stood at the gate. At Brantwood Miss Eliza Lynn
came to nurse the first Mrs. Linton in her fatal illness, and
married Mr. Linton in 1858. At Brantwood she wrote her novels
_Lizzie Lorton_, _Sowing the Wind_, and _Grasp your Nettle_;
also _The Lake Country_, published in 1864. Mr. Linton, in 1865,
published _The Ferns of the Lake Country_, but for some years he
had not lived continuously at Brantwood, and in 1866 he went to
America, where he died in 1898. Mrs. Lynn Linton's best known work
was _Joshua Davidson_, written later than her Coniston period; she
died in London in 1898, and was buried at Crosthwaite, Keswick.
Portraits and relics of the Lintons are to be seen in the Museum
at Coniston.
Another poet, Gerald Massey, lived for a time at Brantwood, and
dated the dedication of a volume of his poems from that address
in May, 1860. He, like Linton, is known for his advocacy of
democratic opinions; indeed, it is said that George Eliot took him
for model in _Felix Holt the Radical_.
During the later years of Mr. Linton's ownership, Brantwood was
taken for the summer by the Rev. G. W. Kitchin, now Dean of
Durham. In 1871, however, Mr. Linton sold the house to Prof.
Ruskin.
Ruskin as a child often visited Coniston, and in 1830 at the age
of eleven made his first written mention of the place in a MS.
journal now in the Museum. In his _Iteriad_, a rhymed description
of the tour of that date, he gave the first hint of his wish to
live in the Lake District, and in the winter of 1832-33, at the
age of nearly fourteen, he wrote the well-known verses which stood
first in the earliest collection of his poems:--
I weary for the torrent foaming,
For shady holm and hill;
My mind is on the mountain roaming,
My spirit's voice is still.
The crags are lone on Coniston ...
remembering first and foremost, not Snowdon or Scotland, but
Coniston. In 1837, as an Oxford man, he was here again, making
notes for his earliest prose work, _The Poetry of Architecture_;
and one of the illustrations was a sketch of the Old Hall from
the water, the view which became so familiar afterwards from his
windows at Brantwood.
Then for a while his interests turned to the cathedrals of France,
the palaces and pictures of Italy, and to the loftier scenery of
the Alps; but curiously enough he did not like the Matterhorn at
first--it was too unlike "Cumberland," he said. In 1847, already
a well-known author, he was looking out for a house in the Lake
District, and staying at Ambleside. But the March weather was
dull, and he had many causes for depression. As he rowed on
Windermere he pined for the light and colour of southern skies.
"The lake," he wrote home, "when it is quite calm, is wonderfully
sad and quiet; no bright colour, no snowy peaks. Black water, as
still as death; lonely, rocky islets; leafless woods, or worse
than leafless; the brown oak foliage hanging dead upon them; gray
sky; far-off, wild, dark, dismal moorlands; no sound except the
rustling of the boat among the reeds." Next year he revisited the
lakes in spring, and wrote soon after about a wild place he had
found:--"Ever since I passed Shap Fells, when a child, I have had
an excessive love for this kind of desolation."
It was not, however, until 1867 that he revisited the Lakes. He
came to Coniston on August 10th and went up the Old Man, delighted
with the ascent. We have already quoted his description of the
view.
At last (it was in 1871, at the age of 52, being then Slade
Professor at Oxford) he fell into a dangerous illness, and lay
between life and death at Matlock. He was heard to say and
repeat:--"If only I could lie down beneath the crags of Coniston!"
Before he was fairly well again he heard through his old friend,
Mr. T. Richmond, that a house and land at Coniston were for
sale. The owner, W. J. Linton, asked £1,500 for the estate, and
he bought it at once. In September he travelled here to see his
bargain and found the cottage, as it then was, in poor condition;
but, as he wrote, some acres "of rock and moor and streamlet, and,
I think, the finest view I know in Cumberland--or Lancashire, with
the sunset visible over the same."
Next summer the house was ready for him, and thenceforward became
his headquarters. From June, 1889, till his death he never left it
for a night; indeed, the last time he went so far as the village
was on April 7th, 1893, when he attended our Choral Society's
concert.
It is needless to tell over again the story of his life at
Brantwood; to describe the house that he found a rickety cottage,
and left a mansion and a museum of treasures; the gardens, woods,
and moor he tended; the surroundings of mountain and streamlet,
bird and beast, child-pet and peasant acquaintance, now familiar
to the readers of his later books and of the many books that have
been written about him. But here it must not be left unsaid that
Coniston folk knew him less as the famous author than as the kind
and generous friend; eccentric and not easily understood, but
always to be trusted for help; giving with equal readiness to all
the churches, to the schools and Institute; and to these last
giving not only his money, but his strength and sympathy. It was
he who started the first carving classes, and promoted the linen
industry; he lectured in the village (December, 1883) for local
charities, and--what was perhaps most effective of all--carried
out in practice his principle of employing neighbours rather than
strangers, of giving the tradesfolk and labourers of the valley
a share in his fortunes and interests. And perhaps in his death
he did them almost a greater service. It was in obedience to
his wishes that the offer of a funeral in Westminster Abbey was
refused, and he was laid to rest--January 25th, 1900--"beneath the
crags of Coniston," so linking his name for ever with the place he
loved.
INDEX.
Above beck, 47, 48;
Bovebeck, 77.
ADDISON of Coniston, 48;
Adinson, 77.
"Allans," 44, 45.
Anglian settlement, 23.
Angling Association, 13.
Anglo-Cymric score, 25.
Arnside, 27.
ASHBURNER of Coniston, 77.
Ashgill quarry, 19, 66, 67.
ATKINSON of Coniston, 47-49, 57, 66, 67, 74.
BAINBRIDGE of Coniston, 77.
Bank ground, 9, 34, 77.
Banniside, 2, 6, 7, 18, 19.
Baptist chapels, 56, 57.
BARRATT of Coniston, 1, 60, 80.
BARROW of Coniston, 49, 74, 77.
Basalt, 1.
Beacons, 4, 12, 15.
"Beck, brook, burn," 26.
Beck Leven, 10, 62.
BEEVER of Coniston, 8, 52, 53, 79.
BELL of Coniston, 42, 68, 74, 76, 77.
Bethecar, 17.
BIRKETT, Rev. J., 49, 54.
Black Bull, 1, 60, 72, 73, 77.
Blawith, 15, 17, 62, 63.
Bleaberry haws, 19.
Bloomeries, 10, 11, 17, 62-65.
Bloomsmithy rent, 64.
Boathouses, 8, 9, 10.
Bobbin mills, 17, 69.
Bonfires, 4.
Booth crag and tarn, 7.
Bounding of pasture, 35.
Bowmansteads, 38, 48, 76.
BOWNASS of Coniston, 47, 50, 55, 56, 60, 65, 66, 68, 74-76.
Brantwood, 10, 81-84.
Brasses in church, 52, 78.
British village, 15.
Brow, 47, 48, 77.
Brown How, 12.
BUCCLEUGH, duke of, 12.
Burnmoor, 20.
BURNS of Coniston, 77.
Bursting-stone quarry, 7.
BYWATER, Dr., 80.
Carnarvon, Cumberland, 37.
Carrs, 5, 23.
Catbank, 47, 48, 75, 77.
Chapels at Coniston, 57.
Chapel Syke, 75.
CHAPMAN, Rev. C, 51, 54.
Char, 13.
Charcoal-burning, 18, 36, 63, 68.
Church Coniston, 29, 32.
Church of Coniston, 46-54.
Circles, stone, 16-21.
Clergy of Coniston, 54.
Colwith, 27.
Comet, 41.
Conishead Priory land, 63, 65.
Coniston Bank, 10, 17, 81, _and see_ Townend.
Coniston, the name, 24.
COPLEY of Brantwood, 81.
Coppermines, 2, 13, 22, 58-62.
COWERD of Coniston, 47, 48.
COWPER, Mr. H. S., 14, 19, 20, 22, 27, 32, 33, 35, 65, 80.
CREIGHTON of Coniston, 73, 77, 80.
Crowberry Haws, 2, 3.
Crown Hotel, 74, 75.
"Currock," 16.
DAWSON of Coniston, 76, 77.
Deer-parks, 10, 33, 44, 64.
Deer-traps, 20.
DEMETRIUS of Tarsus, 22.
DENISON of Coniston, 48.
DE QUINCEY at Coniston, 73.
Devil's footprints, 34-35.
DIXON of Coniston, 47-49, 74-77;
Dickson, 51.
Dixon ground, 2, 48, 76, 77.
DOUGLAS, Rev. J., 49, 54.
DOVER of Coniston, 47, 48.
Dow crags, 5, 6, 23.
Dykes, ancient, 19, 20.
EDRINGTON of Coniston, 77.
ELLWOOD, Rev. T., 25, 28, 61.
EVANS, Rev. F., 15.
Far end, 5, 47, 48, 77.
"Feet, fit," 27;
Fittess, 45.
Fellfoot, 27.
Fir island, 11.
Fir point, 9.
FLEMING, Fletcher, 27.
---- Lady le, 53-55, 67, 77.
---- of Coniston, 47-49, 51, 66, 75, 76.
---- of Coniston Hall, 37-44, 50, 52.
---- Sir Daniel, 13, 27, 41, 42, 44, 59, 64.
---- Sir Daniel (in 1819), 79.
---- Thomas le, 63.
Floating island, 13.
FORD of Monk Coniston, 68, 80.
Forge, 1, 62, 69.
Furness abbey, 29, 31-36, 63, 65.
Furness fells, 29, 34, 35.
Gaits water, 6, 45;
Goat's tarn, 71.
GASKERTH of Coniston, 69;
GASKETH, 77;
GASGARTH, 78;
GASKARTH, 81.
Gateside, 47.
GELDERD of Coniston, 75, 76;
GELDART, 77.
German miners, 58-60, 64.
Ghosts, 17.
Giant's grave, 15.
Giants of Troutbeck, 40.
GIBSON, Dr., 3, 19, 27, 34, 40, 42, 49-51, 55, 58, 60, 61, 75.
Gill, 48, 69.
Gillhead bridge, 1, 2.
Glacial action, 1, 2, 11.
Glen Mary, 26.
Goldscope quarries, 66, 67.
Gondola, 8.
GREEN, Wm., 66, 67, 73.
GRESLEY'S novel, _Coniston Hall_, 43.
Gridiron, 12.
Grisedale, 33.
"Grounds," 34.
Guards, 8, 26.
Half-penny alehouse, 72, 74, 80.
Hall, Coniston, 3, 10, 38-44, 71, 77.
Hallgarth, 48.
Hare crags, 19.
HARRISON of Coniston, 47-49, 77, 81.
"Hause," 2.
Hawkshead, 26, 31-33.
---- hill, 57.
Haws bank, 42, 74;
Hows bank, 47, 48.
Heald, 11, 18.
Heathwaite, 76.
High cross, 18.
HILLIARD, Mr. L. J., 78.
Hoathwaite, 10;
Huthwait, 47;
Outhwaite, 77.
HOBSON of Coniston, 47, 48.
Hodge close, 66, 77.
HODGSON of Coniston, 47.
Hollin bank, 77.
Holly how, 80.
Holme ground, 45, 77.
HOLMS of Coniston, 47.
Holywath, 1, 2, 47, 80.
How head, 77.
HUDSON of Brantwood, 81.
HUERTSON of Coniston, 77.
Hut-circles, 18, 19.
Institute, 53, 55, 56;
_and see_ Museum.
ION of Coniston, 76.
Iron industries, 32, 62-65;
_and see_ Bloomeries.
JACKSON of Tilberthwaite, 66-69, 74-77.
Jenkin syke, 22.
JOHNSON of Coniston, 66, 77.
Kendal, barons of, 29, 32, 37.
KENDALL, Dr., 20, 44, 55, 56.
Kernel crag, 3.
Kirkby quay, 9, 66.
KIRKBY of Coniston, 76, 77.
"Kirk Sinkings," 16.
KITCHIN, Dean, 82.
KNOTT of Monk Coniston, 42, 77, 80.
Lakebank hotel, 12.
Lake of Coniston, 8-13, 29, 32.
Lanehead, 9, 74, 80.
Lang crags, 1.
Lawson park, 18, 33, 35, 64, 77.
Levers hause, 5,6.
Levers water, 2-6;
Lever water, 71
Limestone, 2, 7.
Line or Lang gards, 44.
LINTON of Brantwood, 81, 82, 84.
Little Arrow, 38, 47, 48, 76, 77.
Low Bank ground, 9.
Low house, 48.
Low water, 2, 3, 5;
Lowwater fall, 3.
MACKRETH of Coniston, 69.
"Man, maen," 4, 23;
High Man, 18.
Manor of Coniston, 38, 44;
of Monk Coniston, 36.
MARSHALL of Monk Coniston, 5, 9, 26, 35, 68, 74, 77, 78, 80.
Meerstone, inscribed, 18.
MASACKS, MASSICKS of Coniston, 66, 74.
MASSEY, Gerald, 82.
Mills, 69, 72.
Mines, _see_ Copper.
Model of Coniston, 7.
Monk Coniston, 29, 31-36.
---- ---- hall, 35, 80.
---- ---- moor, 18.
---- ---- tarns, 4, 26.
Montague island, 12, 36.
Moors and their antiquities, 14-20.
Museum, 7, 12, 53, 55, 56, 67, 78.
Nibthwaite, 12, 13, 17, 62;
Neburthwaite, 33.
Nook, 48.
Norman settlement, 28-30, 37.
Norse settlement, 26-28, 30, 37.
NORTH of Coniston Bank, 81.
OLDFIELD, Lieut., 74.
Old Man, 1-7, 23.
Otters, 13.
Outlaws, 33, 34, 38.
Outrake, 48.
Oxenfell, 27, 77.
Oxness, 11.
Parkamoor, 17, 33, 35, 62, 64.
PARK, PARKE of Coniston, 48, 76, 77.
Park Yeat, 47, 48.
"Parrocks, parks," 33, 63, 64.
Partition of Furness, 29.
Peel island, 11, 12, 62, 65, 68.
Pennyrigg quarries, 5, 66.
Pilgrim's badge, 35.
Population, 69, 70.
Prehistoric antiquities, 15-21.
Priest stile, 46.
Priory, none at Coniston, 72.
Pudding-stone, 3.
Quarries, _see_ Slate.
RADCLIFFE, Mrs., at Coniston, 71.
Railway, 61.
Raven crag (Yewdale), 5.
Raven tor (Old Man), 3.
Rear or Ray crag, 45.
RIGBYE, Miss, 80.
Ring mounds, 16-19.
ROBINSON of Coniston, 47, 69, 72, 74, 76.
Roman Catholics, 40, 57.
Roman roads, 22.
ROULE, Sir R., 46.
Ruskin cross, 53.
RUSKIN, John, 4, 7, 10, 56, 57, 74, 83-85.
Saddlestones quarry, 3, 66.
SANDERS of Coniston, 77.
Satterthwaite, 33.
SAWREY of Coniston, 77.
Schools, 46, 54, 55.
Scrow, 2, 7.
Selside, 12, 17, 62.
SEVERN of Brantwood, 11, 55, 56, 81.
Ship inn, 74.
SIDNEY, Sir Philip, 40.
Silverbank, 1, 47, 48.
Simon Nick, 60.
Slate quarries, 2, 4, 5, 7, 65-68.
SLY of Coniston, 74.
Smartfield, 48.
SMITH, Elizabeth, 78.
Smithies, 64.
SMITH of Coniston Bank, 81.
SPEDDING of Coniston, 66, 75, 77.
Spoon hall, 76, 77.
Springs bloomery, 10, 62, 65.
Stable Harvey, 62, 65.
Statesmen, 74-77.
Stone rings, Burney, 16.
SUERT of Coniston, 77.
Sun hotel, 2, 74.
Sunnybank, 11, 57.
Swinside circle, 16, 21.
Tanneries, 68.
Tarn hows, Tarnhouse, 77.
Tarns, _see_ Monk Coniston, Gaitswater, Levers, Lowwater.
TENNYSON at Coniston, 78.
Tent cottage, 9, 35, 78.
Tent lodge, 9, 78.
Thingmounts, 27-29.
THOMPSON of Coniston, 66, 80.
Thurston water, 8, 13, 29, 32, 44, 72.
"Thwaite," 26.
Thwaite cottage, 80.
Thwaite house, 8, 79.
Tilberthwaite, 47, 48, 67, 77.
---- gill, 5; Micklegill, 45.
TODD, Mr. E., 56.
Tom or Tarn gill, 26, 62.
TOWERS of Coniston, 47, 48, 77.
Townend, 71, 72, 77, 81; _and see_ Coniston bank.
TOWNSON of Coniston, 49, 69, 78.
TUBMAN of Coniston, 76.
TURNER the painter at Coniston, 72.
TYSON of Coniston, 47, 48, 64, 66, 74, 77.
VICKERS of Coniston, 47, 66.
Volcanic rock, 2, 7.
WALKER of Coniston, 48, 66, 67, 77.
Walna scar, 20, 21.
WARSOP, Mr., 61, 62.
Waterhead, 35, 77, 80.
---- hotel, 8, 9.
---- old inn, 9, 74.
Waterpark (Coniston), 62, 64.
---- (Nibthwaite), 12, 33, 64; Watsyde park, 35.
Weatherlam, 2, 5, 26.
Welsh survivals, 23.
WEST, Father, 38, 39, 66, 71.
"Whittlegate," 46.
WILL O' T' TARNS, 40.
WILSON of Coniston, 66, 77.
WONDERFUL WALKER, 20, 72.
Wonwaldremere, 24.
Wood industries, 68, 69.
Woods, 36, 64.
WOODVILLE, Mr. T., 79, 81.
Woollen, burials in, 51.
WORDSWORTH at Coniston, 72, 80.
Yewdale, 5, 62, 77;
Udale, 48.
---- beck, 26, 44.
---- crag, 5, 10.
---- grove, 79.
Yewtree, 27;
Utree, 77.
YOUDALE of Coniston, 66.
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"SUN HOTEL, CONISTON, LANCS."
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"SUN HOTEL, CONISTON, R.S.O., LANCS."
_Sun_
_Hotel_
ENGLISH
LAKE
DISTRICT.
CONISTON.
Boarding Terms from 6/6 inclusive.
Hot and Cold Baths.
Separate Drawing Room for Ladies.
Public and Private Sitting Rooms.
Large or small Parties catered for.
PROPRIETOR - T. SATTERTHWAITE.
TYSON'S
Waterhead Hotel,
CONISTON LAKE, LANCASHIRE.
Headquarters "Automobile Club" of Great Britain & Ireland.
THIS FIRST-CLASS ESTABLISHMENT is the most delightfully situated
of any Hotel in the Lake District. It is surrounded with beautiful
pleasure grounds and select walks, from which excellent views
of Brantwood, the home of the late Professor Ruskin, and Tent
Lodge, for some time the residence of the late Lord Tennyson, are
obtained; and embraces most interesting Lake and Mountain Views.
Coniston Churchyard, the burial place of the late John Ruskin, and
the Ruskin Museum, are within a few minutes walk of the Hotel.
=Billiards. Lawn Tennis. Private Boats.=
Fishing.
A Steam Gondola runs daily on the Lake during the Season.
_Char a Banc. Open and Close Carriages and Post Horses._
=Coaches Daily to AMBLESIDE, GRASMERE, WINDERMERE and LANGDALES.=
AN OMNIBUS MEETS ALL TRAINS ARRIVING.
=J. TYSON, Proprietor.=
JOHN BAXTER,
Painter and Decorator,
Dealer in Paperhangings,
Glass, Oils, Colours, &c.
LAKE VIEW, CONISTON, R.S.O.
All Papers edged by Machine Free of Charge
ESTIMATES FREE.
WRITE FOR TITUS WILSON'S
LIST OF LOCAL PUBLICATIONS
Post Free to any Address.
28, Highgate, Kendal.
_'Fairfield' Temperance Hotel_,
CAFE AND RESTAURANT,
_Opposite the Church._
Also a FANCY REPOSITORY with a fine selection of Pictorial Post
Cards, Crest and View China. _Dark Room._
JONATHAN BELL,
Joiner, Builder,
English timber
and Slate Merchant.
Complete Undertaker.
Plans made & Estimates given
for
every description of Building.
HAWS BANK, CONISTON, R.S.O.
LANCASHIRE.
_Titus Wilson, Printer, Kendal._
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