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summit of Bleathwaite. Below the park lies the farm of 

 Hawthwaite. This farm, as we read in the old archives, 

 was given to the Priory of Conishead by Roger of 

 Brackenbergh. The place from which this old family 

 (one member of which, I have heard, was Brackenbury, 

 King Dick's lieutenant of the tower) derived their pat- 

 ronymic, is now called Brackenbarrow and lies imme- 

 diately behind Hawthwaite, or rather, between it and the 

 bold heights of Torver Common, the steep gorse-clad side 

 of which, coming sheer down to the water-edge, you pass 

 ere you reach the point where ' the black beck of Torver,' 

 flows into the lake. In the opening made by Torver beck in 

 the heights, you will have noted the pretty farm-house of 

 Sunny Bank, with the ancient Baptist chapel behind, and the 

 bobbin mill before it, where Professor Holloway has his 

 pill-boxes made. The rocky island, called the Gridiron, lies 

 immediately off this point and, on the lower side of the 

 beck, lies the old grey farm of Oxness, finely backed up by 

 the verdant eminence called Stable Harvey. The scenery 

 now becomes broken up into craggy, heathy knolls, rising 

 into hills of the same kind, pre-eminent amongst which 

 towers the beacon-hill of Blawith. Close to the lake-side 

 stands the handsome Elizabethan villa called Brown How, 

 commanding a splendid view of the lake, even up to the 

 Waterhead, and the noble hill-country beyond. The eastern 

 shore rises woody and wild, with little variety after Brant- 

 wood is passed, until, rounding the timber-clad promontory, 

 on which you see the fair residence of Waterpark, you come 

 to the end of your outward voyage, with the village of 

 Nibthwaite on your left, and that of Watery eat on your 

 right, while the quaint little church and new parsonage of 

 Blawith and the rich valley of the Crake are directly in front. 

 You wall probably find, or at least hear of, the floating 



