In 1785 two brothers skating on Broadwater fell through the ice and drowned. Since
that time, as Wordsworth notes, the lake has been known as Brothers Water.

Edward Hasell (1765-1825), owner of the Dalemain estate near Ullswater, was famous
in the region for his annual Martindale hunts.

Line 35 of the poem “Loyalty Confined” from Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Percy dates the poem to 1671 and tentatively attributes it to Sir Roger L’Estrange.

In Part I of The Compleat Angler (1653), Izaac Walton sets out “to recover the lost credit of the poor despised Chub.”

More commonly known as the chub.

Wordsworth describes his own role in the village efforts to thin its raven population
in a famous passage of the Prelude (I.334-51).

Hawkshead.