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Stockghyll Force and Wansfell the Lake District

A second Victorian favorite was Wansfell via Stockghyll Force. Go round to the back of the Salutation car park and follow the lane uphill alongside the wooded hill. Take gate into Stockghyll Park and follow the paths up to the waterfall, Stockghyll Force. The best of many descriptions is by Keats, who visited in June 1818: It is buried in trees, in the bottom of the valley the stream itself is interesting throughout with \'mazy error over pendant shades.\' Milton meant a smooth river this is buffeting all the way on a rocky bed ever various but the waterfall itself, which I came suddenly upon, gave me a pleasant twinge.

First we stood a little below the head about half way down the first fall, buried deep in trees, and saw it streaming down two more descents to the depth of more than fifty feet then we went on a jut of rock nearly level with the second fall head, where the first fall was above us, and the third below our feet still at the same time we saw that the water was divided by a sort of cataract island on whose other side burst forth a glorious stream then the thunder and the freshness. At the same time the different falls have different characters; the first darting down the slaterock like an arrow; the second spreading out like a fan the third dashed into a mist and the one on the other side of the rock a sort of mixture of all these.

There is a bridge at the top of the Force, so you can go up one side and down the other. To go further, join the road at the gate by the top Hest Bank Ambleside St John\'s in the Vale of the falls and follow road Y2m uphill. Soon after the road turns away from the wood, a signed path leads steeply uphill from a stile to Wansfell. It descends on the far side (as Nanny Lane) into Troutbeck.

Wansfell is addressed in a sonnet, \'Wansfell! this household has a favoured lot ... by Wordsworth, who could see it from Rydal Mount, felt it deserved its niche in English poetry, and gave it one on Christmas Eve 1842.

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