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Another photo from my weekend trip to the Lake District the other weekend. This is of Derwent Water just south of Keswick. You literally walk round a corner into this view, breathtaking!

Watched over by the fells of Derwent, and Castlerigg, the lake was described by John Keats as being “shut in with rich-toned mountains”.
Borrowdale’s mountains are to the south; Newlands on the west; and Skiddaw to the north.

Just south of the town of Keswick, at Derwent Water’s head, is Friar’s Crag, a favourite childhood view of author John Ruskin. The spot is so named because of the four-acre island, St Herbert’s, in the lake’s centre. Pilgrims and monks once gathered here to honour the saint, and William Wordsworth wrote a poem about the hermitage:

“. . . then wilt thou reverence
This quiet spot; and, Stranger! not unmoved
Wilt thou behold this shapeless heap of stones,
The desolate ruins of St. Herbert's Cell. . .”

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