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From to to Your ScenicA B GuideSEE to Services 108 & 517

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THE YEAR-ROUND 108 SERVICE WITH THE SUMMER-SEASON KIRKSTONE RAMBLER

Have we got views for you... Lakeland see and explore ...as never before

For timetable information contact traveline on 0871 200 22 33 A GUIDE TO YOUR RIDE These two journeys conjure up all the magic and romance of the English within a combined distance of 30 miles: a glorious crescendo of and lakes. This leaflet serves as the perfect introduction to both buses, though it is only possible to make the through-journey connection in high summer. Nonetheless, it offers a vivid visual impression of two stunningly beautiful travel experiences. Captioned images are set in sequence from Penrith and Bowness. To help you anticipate in which direction to look, each picture has a capital letter set into a box above the green stage bar, to guide your eyes: L (left) R (right) A (ahead) B (behind) G E N K I L E C A D N S E S D D O H B Y I E E R T T T E I R E G N S L U R N T S K D W O I E S O T N R L I R O O E A R A P B P G P K P B T L L L L L L L

SERVICE 108 SERVICE 517

Service 108 Penrith to 40 minutes The journey to Ullswater via historic Eamont Bridge, charming Tirril and vibrant Pooley Bridge leads through a soothing pastoral landscape. The clamour of town, motorway and railway quickly forgotten as the first delightful backdrop draws ever nearer. Crossing the Eamont for the second time the bus gives access to the lake steamer. However, bus passengers can revel in the scenic intimacies of the lakeside road. The bus weaves along a road with the constant pleasure of views across a glistening lake sprinkled with yachts, the appetite constantly whetted with an ever growing mass of shapely fells ahead. Journeying by a sequence of old deer parks, Wordsworth’s famous daffodils and Lyulf’s Tower, close by Aira Force. Then sneak a view into the high fells above Glencoyne, across to land-locked Martindale and elegant . After , an old mining village and popular springboard for , the bus leaves the head of the lake to turn at Patterdale, with its grand view up Grisedale.

The Millennium Stone, an inscribed Shap granite monolith erected in July 2000. With the Christian cross are alpha and omega symbolising the unity between the people of Eden throughout time, directly linking with those of nearby Mayburgh and King Arthur’s Round Table. A Bronze Age ceremonial monument Mayburgh Henge some 4,000 years old - the name means ‘maiden’s earthwork’ E G D I R B

H Y T E I L R O N E O P R P L L L L L L L Beda Fell Place Fell Birk Fell Martindale

Pooley Bridge Pier for the lake steamer to Howtown and Glenridding E G G D I N I R D B

D Y I E R L N O E L O G P L L L L L L L L L

Arthur’s Pike Bonscale Pike Pikawassa Beda Fell

Ullswater Marina

Sharrow Bay Hotel is one of the most prestigious in Lakeland, with a reputation for the finest cuisine. Paul McCarthy brought his bride Heather here for their honeymoon E G G D I N I R D B

D I Y E R L N O E L O G P L L L L L L L L

Birkhouse Moor Helvellyn Catstycam Helvellyn Lower Man 950 m/3,116ft Birk Fell

Gowbarrow Lodge > E G G D N I I R D B

D I Y R E L N E O L O G P A L L L L L L L High Street Roman Road ran along the skyline, a bracing march between Voreda (Old Penrith) and Galava () Bonscale Pike Arthur’s Pike

The term picturesque is frequently applied to Ullswater, it has C18th Italian origins. Indeed, the first expression of the vogue in buildings was along the lake shore at Lyulf’s Tower (spotted just before the Aira Force car park). A peel tower medievally embellished in 1780 by the Duke of Norfolk - it was the film location of the romantic Cadbury’s chocolate advert ‘...and all because the lady loves Milk Tray’. E G G D N I I R D B

D I Y E R L N O E L O G P L L L L L L L L Ullswater which means ‘Ulf’s lake’, presumably a significant C10th Norse settler. It is the most sporting of Lakeland lakes, hosting regular yacht racing events Glenridding Dodd Heron Pike Keldas Sheffield Pike E G G D N I I R D B

D I Y R E L N E O L O G P A L L L L L L L site of late medieval shepherd’s shieling

Greenside location of Seldom Seen an old lead miners terrace

Glencoyne Farm (National Trust) traditional C17th farmstead E G G D N I I R D B

D I Y R E L N E O L O G P R L L L L L L L Dodd Caudale Moor E G G D N I I R D B D

I Y R E N L E O L O G P A L L L L L L L Along the far shore runs an undulating Birk Fell, ‘silver birch-clothed hill’ footpath of exquisite delight linking Howtown with Patterdale

Kilbert How

Silver Point

Norfolk Island E G G D I N I R B D

D Y I E R L N O E O L P L G L L L L L L L Heron Pike Glenridding Dodd ‘sea eagles peak’ Stybarrow Oaks G N E I G D D D I I R R B N

E Y L E G L O O P R L L L L L L L

Birkhouse Moor

National Park Information Centre G N I D D E I L R A Glenridding is Celtic for N D E R L ‘bracken infested valley’ E G T

T some things just don’t change! A R P L L L L L L L Place Fell ‘open space hill-pasture’ Hause ‘pass of the dale with a storehouse’

From these meadows to its outflow as the River Eamont at Pooley Bridge, Ullswater is 7.5 miles/12km long.The lake is picturesquely split into three distinct reaches E L A G D N R I E D T D T I A R P N E L G L L L L L L L L

High Crag Birkhouse Moor Striding Edge Keldas

Grisedale ‘valley where pigs foraged’

The church is dedicated to a E L

C10th Irish/Norse ‘Padraic’. A G D N R Inside, seek out the remarkable I E D T D T

set of embroidered tapestries, I A R P

the work of Ann Macbeth N E L G R L L L L L L L Service 517 Kirkstone Rambler 55 minutes Bowness-on- to Glenridding From popular promenade, with its access to lovely lake cruises, the Kirkstone Rambler sets out on its great lakes connection bound for Ullswater. Spinning along the wood-fringed Rayrigg Road by Hammar Bank and the A591 roundabout it heads into the beautiful Troutbeck valley. With ever more stunning westward views and nearer, across the dale, the old village strung along a quiet by-road. Passing the parish church, the bus summons up the gears on the steady climb to a wonderful brink overlooking Troutbeck Park backed by the high fells buttressing the High Street range. Traversing the head of the valley, with a powerful presence ahead, it levels by the famous inn, catches a glimpse of the Kirk Stone, before weaving down the serpentine pass. Running on by Brotherswater Inn an array of shapely fells crowd the scene, with Dovedale a lovely composition. Now by the broad shining level of Brotherswater and the shy hamlet of Low Hartsop, the bus weaves all along the Goldrill Beck valley, through Patterdale, to arrive at the head of the second longest lake in . The bus loops in Glenridding, ready for the return journey. Dunmail Raise Steel Fell Heron Pike Fairfield Red Screes

Wansfell Pike

cruise from Newby Bridge At 11 miles/17 km this is the longest natural lake in England S S K E C N E W B T O U B O R T L L L L L L L L

Brim Fell Crinkle Crags Harrison Stickle Wetherlam Bowfell

Claife Heights

Windermere K C S E S B E T N Hammar Bank viewpoint. means ‘ridge of cliffs’ U W O R O T L B L L L L L L L

Coniston Old Man Crinkle Crags High Raise Wetherlam Bowfell The Pike o’Blisco Langdale Pikes Tarns Hows

Black Fell

Windermere, from the Norse ‘Vinand’s lake’. The town of that name only came into being after the arrival of the railway in1847.

From Low Borrans a majestic prospect opens across a rolling Silurian K C S E landscape of woods and pastures into the volcanic interior of the S B E T Lakes, above Coniston and Great Langdale - Scenic? I’ll say it is! N U W O O R B T L L L L L L L L Townend, a classic yeoman’s house Troutbeck, comprising clusters of circa1626 (National Trust) farmsteads strung along a quiet valley side road do pay a visit K C E B T S S U E O N R T W O L B L L L L L L L St Jesus Chapel, Troutbeck, contains Jacobean features, the tower was built in 1736, see the Burne-Jones east window

Ill Bell S K S C A E P

B E T N U O O T R S T K R I K A L L L L L L L Thornthwaite Crag spot the tall cairn Yoke ‘bell shaped hill’ ‘shoulder shaped hill’

Scot’s Rake

Troutbeck Tongue a medieval deer park

Park Farm S S A P

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Scot’s Rake is the rising line of the High Street E C N E O Roman Road, the name echoes folk memories B T T S of the much-feared Border Reiver raids U K O R R I T K R L L L L L L L Scot’s Rake Ill Bell Threshthwaite Mouth Thornthwaite Crag Froswick S S A P

K E C N E B O T T S U K O R R I T K R L L L L L L L The Kirk Stone is fleetingly seen near the top of the pass (this is a close-up), the name derives from a superstition that it was an ancient goblin’s church

The Brotherswater Angletarn Pikes Kirk Stone Boredale Hause Place Fell

slopes of Caudale Moor S S A P

E N E O L T A slopes of Red Screes, S D K R R I

which looms impressively E K T

above the T A P L L L L L L L L Kirkstone Pass Middle Dodd Caiston Glen 1,481ft 451m ‘keystone-shaped rock dale’ with Glen deriving from the Celtic glyn Scandale Pass S S A P

E E L N A D O T R S E T K T R I A K P B L L L L L L L slopes of Dovedale High The top of Scrubby Crag ‘the dark valley’ overlooking Link Cove on Fairfield Dove Crag

Hogget Gill Stangs

Dove Falls

hoghouse, for

S over-wintering sheep S A P E

L E A N D O R T E S T K T R A I P L K L L L L L L L Angletarn Pikes Place Fell

Brotherswater Inn S S

The name Angle Tarn A P E

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implies an old stocked E A N D

fishing pool on the fell O R T E S T K T R A I P A K L L L L L L L Red Screes Caiston Glen Middle Dodd High Hartsop Dodd Dove Crag Dovedale

slopes of Hartsop S S above How A P E

L E A N D O R T E S

Brotherswater - probably corrupted T K T R I from a lost Norse personal-name A P B K L L L L L L L

A bridle-path leads up from Low Hartsop onto the plateau of High Street, the highest point on the Far , and the Hartsop setting of annual horse-racing events which ceased in the C19th. Dodd

Pasture Beck valley leading up to Threshthwaite Mouth

Low Hartsop S S A P E

L E A N D O R T E S T K T R A I P R K L L L L L L L The present C19th Patterdale Hall is the work of the Leeds textile baron William Marshall who laid out the arboretum and engaged Anthony Salvin to design the house and parish church. The Hall serves the 21st century as an outdoor centre.

Birkhouse Moor

The quaintly narrow White Lion Hotel S E S L A A P D

R Keldas ‘the slope with springs’ a wooded E E N T hill above Patterdale Hall, known as The O T T A S Palace by the Mounseys, self-styled Kings P Goldrill Beck means ‘the K R and Queens of Patterdale in the C18th. I marsh marigold stream’ A K L L L L L L L customer careline complaints & lost property 0871 200 22 33

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