A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
SADDLEBACK, a mountain of the Skiddaw group, in Cumberland; rising from a base 5¼ miles long, extending north-eastward from the Glenderaterra river to the vicinity of Mungrisdale; soaring to a ridgy summit-line about 2 miles long, extending in the same direction as the base; and culminating in a point, called Lenthwaite fell, 2, 856 feet above sea-level, and 3¾ miles E by S of the summit of Skiddaw. It takes the name of Saddleback from the appearance of the outline of its summit, as seen from the E; but it is properly called Blencathara; and it is sung under that name, as follows, by Coleridge:" On stern Blencathara's perilous height The winds are tyrannous and strong; and flashing forth unsteady light From stern Blencathara's skyey height How loud the torrents throng !"
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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