Borrowdale

They revive themselves.

Yeah, that's true of the Borrowdale yews.

Middle will die, and then new shoots will come from round the outside.

[laughs]

Wh- whereabouts in Carlisle?

On the Raffles Estate.

And then, uh, the pulpit is in Borrowdale Church.

And we have the weathervane here, along with the communion plate and some of the memorials that were inside the church on the walls.

Sonnet Seventeen.

The eagle requires a large domain for its support, but several pairs not many years ago were constantly resident in this country, building their nests in the steeps of Borrowdale, Wasdale, Ennerdale, and on the eastern side of Helvellyn.

Often have I heard anglers speak of the grandeur of their appearance as they hovered over Red Tarn in one of the coves of this mountain.

The bird frequently returns, but is always destroyed.

We meet this same rock again when we have crossed the sands and our train runs below the white limestone cliffs, golden with gorse, that fringe the Silurian fell country.

North-west of this Silurian area, the Coniston, Wetherlam and Dunnerdale fells represent the volcanic rocks known as the Borrowdale series which are very nearly, as we have seen, the oldest rocks in the world.

Such are, in the barest outline, the principal features of what would be called the solid geology of Lancashire.

From them it results that we find alternately represented there the characteristic scenery of a number of other English counties.