Rydal Water, Lake District
Our original plan for our second day in the Lakes was to
visit Coniston and climb Coniston Old Man, but, like last time, the weather had
other ideas. It turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year, so we
decided against climbing a mountain, and instead, we headed to Rydal Water, a
lake near the hamlet of Rydal.
Rydal wasn’t somewhere I had heard of before. We just stumbled across it on the way to Grasmere to get some of their world-famous gingerbread. There’s parking at the lake, and after crossing over a bridge, you’re greeted with stunning scenery. The are a few different tracks that you can walk – we chose one that took us alongside the lake up to Rydal Cave.
Hill Top, Lake District
Hill
Top is a 17th-century house in Near Sawrey, a small village near
Hawkshead. It was once home to children’s author Beatrix Potter who bought the
property in 1906 following the success of her book Peter Rabbit and left it to
the National Trust. The building is now grade 2 listed.
Surrounded
by beautiful countryside and colourful gardens, it’s where she would sit and
write some of her most famous tales. Many of Beatrix’s original
furnishings and trinkets still dotted around the house, including copies of her
illustrations that she had sent to her publisher when working on Peter Rabbit.
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