Bassenthwaite

For the celestial groundsman's final touch, early daffodils are starting to gild the verges with a hint of yellow by Buttermere and Bassenthwaite.

Country diary: Lake District 2011

OSPREY FACTS■ The osprey's UK stronghold is in Scotland, but they recently began breeding at Bassenthwaite in Cumbria and there is a pair in Wales in the Glaslyn valley.

Osprey webcam thrills bird lovers as Lady of the Loch awaits mate 2011

Over Great End, Skiddaw and Blencathra it hurtled, sending cat's-paws racing across the lakes of Bassenthwaite, Derwentwater, Windermere, Coniston Water and fjord-like Ullswater.

Country diary: Lake District 2011

Ulleswater, eight miles behind us, Bassenthwaite to the north, and perhaps a bit of Keswick; but I would not have missed the scene for any reasonable consideration.

A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall

We had been recommended to ascend the Castle Rigg, quite near the town, in order to see the fine views from there, which included Bassenthwaite

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

Head, and emptying into Bassenthwaite on the north.

A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892

For the estate went to a cousin, and when the beauty and the burden of it were finally gone, Philip's gentle ineffectual mother departed with relief to the moss-grown dower-house beside Bassenthwaite lake, there to sorrow for her only son, and to find in the expansion of Elizabeth's life, in Elizabeth's letters, and the prospects of Elizabeth's visits, the chief means left of courage and resignation.

Lady Merton, Colonist Humphry Ward 1885

Before this I had been three days at Keswick with my valued old friend, T. Spedding; walked to/Bassenthwaite Ha's/.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

'Bassenthwaite,' Berkeley replied half under his breath.

Philistia Grant Allen 1873

On our right the lovely vale and the wedge-shaped lake of Bassenthwaite; and on our left

English Men of Letters: Coleridge 1871