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Better known as the “chapel in the [Boardale] Hause,” this ruined structure was, according to local lore, built by St. Patrick in the 5th century. Wordsworth based a section of his Excursion on the imagined history of this chapel (ii.730-895). Photo: Martin and Jean Norgate, Old Cumbria Gazetteer.

n180

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

n179

Another self-quotation, as this is line 27 of Wordsworth’s 1800 poem “The Brothers.” In the poem, the line describes the chapel at Ennerdale, not Martindale. Photo: The chapel at Martindale (Mick Knapton, Wikimedia Commons).

n178

The Christy Bridge in Martindale. Photo: Martin and Jean Norgate, Old Cumbria Gazetteer.

n177

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.

n176

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

n175

More commonly known as the chub.

n174

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

n173

Hawkshead.

n172

A self-quotation, as this is a slightly adapted line from The Excursion: “I saw not, but I felt that it was there” (II.872).

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