. The London & North-Western Railway . dire deed. Amongother works accomplished within these walls, the piousJocelyn, in the end of the twelfth century, wrote hisfamous Life of St. Kentigern.: The Abbots ofFurness had a stronghold, known as Peel Castle, in theestuary to the south, and it was there that LambertSimnel landed to pretend that he was one of the sonsof Edward IV. murdered in the Tower by Richard III.,and to claim the throne of Henry VII. North of Barrow the railway-line runs up the shoreof the Duddon estuary, and from Broughton Stationone may go by coach up the beautiful valley whos
. The London & North-Western Railway . dire deed. Amongother works accomplished within these walls, the piousJocelyn, in the end of the twelfth century, wrote hisfamous Life of St. Kentigern.: The Abbots ofFurness had a stronghold, known as Peel Castle, in theestuary to the south, and it was there that LambertSimnel landed to pretend that he was one of the sonsof Edward IV. murdered in the Tower by Richard III.,and to claim the throne of Henry VII. North of Barrow the railway-line runs up the shoreof the Duddon estuary, and from Broughton Stationone may go by coach up the beautiful valley whosecharms are sung in Wordsworths poem, The Still farther westward up the coast, atRavenglass, there is a narrow-gauge railway by whichEskdale may be explored, and from Seascale one coach 82 The Lake District runs by the wild and lonely shores of Wast Water toWasdale Head, at the foot of the frowning Scafell,thirteen miles away, while another goes by Coldfellto Ennerdale Water, the westmost of all the lakes. • ,. M- i (. Making a Cutting. Then from Seascale one may go on by the railwaynorthward, either keeping round the coast by St. Beesand Workington, or following the inland line byEgremont and Lamplugh, and so, by the KeswickRailway to Penrith, complete the round with theCumberland lakes. 83 London and North-Western Railway On the way, St. Bees, of course, is famous, not onlyfor its ancient church and its modern lighthouse, itstheological college founded by Bishop Law in 1816,and the memory of its monastery founded by St. Begain 650, but also for the very human fact that hitherthe poet Shelley came to woo and wed the grey-eyedmaiden of St. Bees. Workington, too, is memorableas the landing-place of Mary, Queen of Scots, in herflight after the Battle of Langside—her room is stillshown at Workington Hall; and Cockermouth keepsthe house in which Wordsworth was born, as well asthe ruin of the Norman stronghold, built of Romanremains, which was captured by King Robe
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