Wed 30 May 3018
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Chapel Stile
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The weather continuing
warm and sunny I wanted to get back to the Lakes. The traffic was bumper to
bumper between Troutbeck and Ambleside,
but the camp site at Baysbrown was now very dry
and not overcrowded.
Ah well: the sunny weather changed to a sultry closeness in the
afternoon and there was a suggestion of rain and a quiet crack or two of
thunder. I went for a walk through the village.
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Chapel Stile Primary School playground
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Boulders used as wall footings
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Across the Langdale Beck there are pleasant scenes by the river popular with visitors; there are pools deep enough to swim in.
Following the track through the wood I came across a weird
construction on the other side of the river behind the Wainrights Inn. It resembles
something from Star Trek TOS. I later
discovered it's I must ask someone
what it is. (I later discovered it's The Ordnance Pavilion, a monument to the Ordnance Survey and the retrangulation of Britain between 1935 and 1962*. I know what Wordsworth would have said!
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I'm not sure what AW would have said...
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Quarries are repaired by nature...
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...but not till work has finished!
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I walked up to where the
quarry is still being worked, but in spite of the heavy machines moving around
it's possible to walk through on a Right-of-Way which leads past some interesting
old quarry entrances, sealed off. The path joins the back road from Elterwater
to Baysbrown at a spot where there was a very strong scent from the large amount
of wild garlic under the trees. It made me feel quite hungry!
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An old adit
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