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Sunday 30th October 2005
Swinside Stone
Circle
Weather: Fine after rain nearly all
day. 15oC.
I think we found the only clear sky in
the whole of Cumbria today - after a morning of heavy rain, the late
afternoon skies began to clear for a short walk to Swinside Stone
Circle. Swinside is possibly the best stone circle in Cumbria and is
widely held to be one of the finest examples of its kind in the whole of
Britain and is referred to by Wordsworth in 'The River Duddon VVII -
Return'.
'...Or near that mystic Round of Druid
fame,
Tardily sinking by its proper weight
Deep into patient earth, from whose smooth breast it came.'
Thwaites Fell and Whitfell from
Swinside.
Swinside Stone Circle - a nice place
for a picnic.
The stones.
Connie, Louise and Angus - and another
doggy friend.
The sun bursts out from Gray Stones.
From the centre of the circle.
The circle form the south.
The track to Broadgate, the windmills
on Kirkby Moor in the distance.
The setting sun on Wrayslack.
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