Dovedale

18.

A view in Dovedale.

Morning.

19.

local area is it or anywhere? Last time

we went to Dovedale.

Oh, okay.

So we've been moving, Dovedale, all over.

Not, you know...

Relatively local.

For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Dr. Brown's letter describing the Vale and Lake of Keswick.

In my way to the north from Hagley, I passed through Dovedale, and to say the truth was disappointed in it.

When I came to Buxton, I visited another or two of their romantic scenes, but these are inferior to Dovedale.

They are but poor miniatures of Keswick, which exceeds them more in grandeur than I can give you to imagine, and more, if possible, in beauty than in grandeur.

Instead of the narrow slip of valley which is seen at Dovedale, you have at Keswick a vast amphitheatre in circumference above twenty miles.

Instead of a meagre rivulet, a noble living lake ten miles round of an oblong form, adorned with a variety of wooded islands.

The rocks indeed of Dovedale are finely wild, pointed and irregular, but the hills are both little and unanimated, and the margin of the brook is poorly edged with weeds, morass and bushwood.

But at Keswick you will on one side of the lake see a rich and beautiful landscape of cultivated fields rising to the eye in fine inequalities, with noble groves of oak happily dispersed, and climbing the adjacent hills, shade above shade, in the most various and picturesque forms.

As the sun sets, the bats will emerge from their roosts and we'll uncover more of their secrets.

So Island Park is based just up the road from Dovedale.

Loads of people will know the famous stepping stones up in Dovedale.

There is fantastic views across the valley here.

And then we've got a couple of buildings that were stood around now.

Number seventeen, asterisk, a landscape, moonlight.

Number eighteen, a view in Dovedale, morning.

Number nineteen, ditto, its companion, evening.

Number twenty, portrait of an artist.