Keswick, Cockermouth & Latrigg

We recently had a few days in the Lake District stopping at an appartment near to Thirlmere.

Tuesday was a wet morning so after meeting John Bewick from the Wainwright Society to hand over some paperwork, we went down into Keswick and then over to Cockermouth.

In Keswick we passed Stanger Street where Alfred Wainwright and his cousin Eric Beardsall had spent the Monday night at a Bed & Breakfast establishment exactly 80 years ago after walking over Helvellyn from Patterdale and getting soaked in the process. I felt it therefore appropriate to take this picture of the street sign on this particular occasion.




We then went to the Museum in Keswick down Station Street which I have passed many times but never been in before. One of the most fastinating items is the 3-D model of the Lake District which was made over 200 years ago.

We then went over to Cockermouth as I wanted to visit the house where William Wordsworth the famous author and poet lived as a child. Like many other buildings in Cockermouth it was badly damaged by the floods last November but has recently reopened. Unfortunatley photos are not permitted inside the property, like many NT establishments. The pictures below show how badly Cockermouth suffered with the floods. The water was halfway up the statue in the main street at the height of the floods.

The new shopping area in Cockermouth which was unaffected by the flooding.

Upon our return to Keswick the weather had picked up a little so we walked up to the summit of Latrigg which has unriveled views over the town and across to neighbouring fells.