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.

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).

While in the Ullswater region, the Wordsworths stayed with their friends Charles and
Letitia Luff.