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Lodore Falls

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The stream falls through a chasm between two towering perpendicular rocks. The intermediate part, broken into large fragments, forms the rough bed of the cascade. Some of these fragments stretching out in shelves, hold a depth of soil sufficient for large trees. Among these broken rocks the stream
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The public house was enlarged to become the Lodore Hotel in 1870. The hotel was bought by Robert England and his Swiss wife, Merthie Muggler, becoming the Swiss Lodore Hotel in 1947. The hotel was acquired by
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Observations relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty made in the year 1772, On Several Parts of England; Particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmorland.
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By the time of Joseph Budworth's tour of the local area in 1792, a public house had been built in front of the falls. A famous onomatopoeic poem, "
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finds its way through a fall of at least a hundred feet; and in heavy rains, the water is every way suited to the grandeur of the scene.
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Valley. Although it is spectacular in the rainy season, it can dry to a trickle in the summer.
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in 1820, was inspired by the falls, and he seems to have fixed the spelling of the name.
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One of the other earliest recorded visits to the "Lodoar Falls" was by
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Cumbria
England
Derwentwater
Watendlath
Watendlath Tarn
Borrowdale

Welsh
Dinogad's Smock
Y Gododdin
William Sawrey Gilpin
Cataract of Lodore
Robert Southey
Stakis Hotels
Hilton Hotels


"Lodore Falls in Borrowdale"
"Lodore Falls- Keswick, Cumbria"
the original
Wales and the Britons, 350-1064
ISBN
9780198217312
"A fortnight's ramble to the lakes in Westmoreland, Lancashire and Cumberland by a Rambler"



"The History of the Lodore Falls Hotel"
"Lodore - Troutdale Woods SSSI"

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