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AWAY TO WESTMORLAND 
HOULD you be in Milnthorpe, it is not 
GS far to the Vale of Winster. This country- 
side, vast in area and thinly populated, 
has about it compelling charm. Bowness, 
Windermere, the Lake District generally, happen 
to be comparatively near : and how many visitors 
Lakeland attracts, in spring, summer, autumn, can 
in part be estimated by the unending procession 
of motor charabanc, motor-car, motor-bicycle, 
bicycle, streaming through Milnthorpe. They 
are almost all bound for the Lakes, Milnthorpe 
village, therefore, has life about it. But, as a hotel 
proprietor at Bowness said: “The good people 
of Milnthorpe merely see the people passing 
through. We get them!” Bowness’s superiority, 
ultimate triumph, were settled in that spoken 
word, 
At Milnthorpe, standing at a corner of the 
main road, you see Lancashire mill-hands, from 
all parts, one would imagine, of the industrial 
hive, in those motor charabancs, which carry 
twenty-eight passengers. A massive vehicle, your 
