The restored ‘Dogs’ Home’, in woods above Coniston Water, which featured in Arthur Ransome’s ‘The Picts and The Martyrs’


The Picts and The Martyrs is the last of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons books with a ‘lake country’ setting. The lake in the books is a hybrid of Coniston Water and Windermere.


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