PART I. 



WINDERMERE AND ITS ENVIRONS. 



A FEW years ago there was only one meaning 

 to the word Windermere. It then meant a lake 

 lying among mountains, and so secluded that it 

 was some distinction even for the travelled man 

 to have seen it. Now there is a Windermere 

 railway station, and a Windermere post-office and 

 hotel ; — a thriving village of Windermere, and a 

 populous locality. This implies that a great many 

 people come to the spot; and the spot is so changed 

 by their coming, and by other circumstances, that 

 a new guide-book is wanted ; for there is much 

 more to point out than there used to be ; and what 

 used to be pointed out now requires a wholly new 

 description. Such new guidance and description 

 we now propose to give. 



The traveller arrives, we must suppose, by the 

 railway from Kendal, having been dropped at the 

 Oxenholme Junction by the London 

 APptoA^ms. train from the south, or the Edin- 

 burgh and Carlisle train from the 

 north. The railways skirt the Lake District, but 



