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Famous Lake District residents

As booklovers throughout the world know, the Wordsworths eventually settled at Town End, Grasmere, in what William described as 'a country for poetry', but (their favourite pastime being walking) they thought nothing of covering the distance to Keswick on foot. Dorothy Wordsworth, writing of a visit she and William paid to Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Keswick, noted that they began a return journey at four o'clock on a December afternoon in 1800. Some industry remained in touristy Keswick, for she recorded: 'Cotton mills lighted up.' Coleridge, who resided at Greta Hall, Keswick, from July 1800 until December 1803, had shared the house with Robert Southey, who remained here until his death in 1843.

Gilpin, one of the visiting topographers, noted of Borrowdale: The land just gives them bread to eat and their herds afford them milk, and their flocks clothes. ' Edward Baines daringly climbed Skiddaw in 1829 in the company of Mrs. Arable, his aunt, and Matilda and George, who were cousins. He had hired two ponies for the ladies. Cousin Matilda was soon putting on 'a rueful, unromantic countenance' and exclaimed that she was tired of seeing great stones. She was shushed by the others for 'a remark so derogatory to the sublime scenery'. Matilda 'on all occasions manifested a true English preference of comfort over most other objects of ambition'. There was respite from a northeast wind when they took shelter in a dry stone hut on the summit.

An upsurge in the old craft of dry stone walling followed the introduction of the Enclosure Act of 1801. A pattern of walls began to appear, these indicating boundaries on what had hitherto been common land. A dry stone wall, with its durable capping of 'cam stones', provided good shelter for sheep, which might 'Iig' on the lee side when wind and rain were in an uncomfortable partnership. Hogg holes were left so that if necessary sheep might pass from one grazing to another, the holes being otherwise covered by a slab of slate. Smoothies for rabbits led to various kinds of traps. Short stretches of walls were situated at the head of crags to deter sheep that might otherwise become crag fast.

The parish of Keswick extended to Braithwaite, Under Skiddaw and Wythburn, by far the largest number of parishioners residing in Keswick, which now had a considerable range of crafts and industries. In 1847, Keswick was described as being a small market town 'consisting of one long street of good houses'. Other writers commented on various unhygienic aspects of the place, with contagious diseases taking their toll of local life. Overcrowding in yards was conducive to outbreaks of cholera.

This continued until arrangements were made for the supply of clean water and adequate disposal of sewerage. In the mid-nineteenth century, the district was attracting up to 10,000 visitors, who were accommodated in a range of hotels and boarding houses. Hoteliers supported the Borrowdale Round, followed by horse drawn coaches that set off from town at 9.30, traversed Borrowdale, braved the heights of Hoister to Buttermere and returned by Newlands, delivering the  passengers to their respective hotels in time for them to get ready for dinner.

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