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nearby Satterthwaite Parish | Parish Map | Panoramas | |
Brantwood | Hawkshead | |
Brantwood was the home of the Victorian artist and critic John Ruskin. Situated by the shore of Coniston Water, the house and gardens are open to visitors all the year round and offer a wide range of educational activities, including drawing workshops. | With its quaint network of narrow alleyways and squares, Hawkshead is a Lakeland village of great historic character. Some of its buildings date back to the seventeenth century, and visitors to the old Grammar School can still see the desk on which the poet William Wordsworth carved his name. | |
Colton Parish | Near Sawrey | |
Colton Parish incorporates the settlements of Bouth, Colton, Finsthwaite, Lakeside, Oxon Park, Nibthwaite and Rusland. Now a museum, Stott Park Bobbin Mill once kept the cotton mills of Lancashire supplied with wooden bobbins. | Between Windermere and Esthwaite Water lies the hamlet of Near Sawrey, famous for Hill Top; the farmhouse where Beatrix Potter wrote many of her classic, illustrated chidren's stories. | |
Coniston | Rusland Valley | |
Once an important centre for copper mining and slate quarrying, nowadays the Coniston fells attract walkers. Visitors can also enjoy a lake trip on the steam-powered yacht Gondola. Coniston Water was where Donald Campbell made his fatal attempt to break the speed record on water in 1967, in his boat Bluebird K7. | Criss-crossed by quiet winding lanes, the Rusland Valley boasts some of the loveliest and most unspoilt countryside in the whole of South Lakeland. The annual Rusland Show takes place in August, with classes for horticulture, home produce and crafts, alongside traditional lakeland sports events such as fell running and hound trails. Hear the show. | |