Brothers Water.
Once known as Broad Water but the name changed when two brothers drowned in its waters in the eighteenth century. I recently read about a newspaper article dated Jan 1788 reporting two brothers aged 16 and 19 returning home across a frozen lake fell through the ice and drowned.
The path around the lake has to provide one of the most beautiful short walks in the Lake District with the added bonus of an old Inn half way round, when open!! Limited parking at the Northern end of the lake....
Those great walkers and wordsmiths Dorothy and William Wordsworth passed this way a long time ago and Bill sat for while on Cow Bridge to catch his breath. Dorothy continued down the path towards the lake and later wrote, "the boughs of the bare old trees, the simplicity of the mountains, and the exquisite beauty of the path...the gentle flowing of the stream, the glittering, lively lake, green fields without a living creature to be seen on them."
Brothers Water.
Once known as Broad Water but the name changed when two brothers drowned in its waters in the eighteenth century. I recently read about a newspaper article dated Jan 1788 reporting two brothers aged 16 and 19 returning home across a frozen lake fell through the ice and drowned.
The path around the lake has to provide one of the most beautiful short walks in the Lake District with the added bonus of an old Inn half way round, when open!! Limited parking at the Northern end of the lake....
Those great walkers and wordsmiths Dorothy and William Wordsworth passed this way a long time ago and Bill sat for while on Cow Bridge to catch his breath. Dorothy continued down the path towards the lake and later wrote, "the boughs of the bare old trees, the simplicity of the mountains, and the exquisite beauty of the path...the gentle flowing of the stream, the glittering, lively lake, green fields without a living creature to be seen on them."