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5. Lodore Falls



Lodore Falls. - Rendered famous by the poet Southey in some rhymes written for his children, and truly, after heavy rain, tlie "splashing and dashing" and "fighting and smiting" and "thundering and floundering" of the water as it rushes down the boulder-strewn chasm is a very fine sight.





Main Street, Keswick. - The old Moot Hall is the outstanding feature of the town - and its awkward corners, perhaps ! - and excites a good deal of curiosity. As a matter of fact, it is only about a hundred years old, but it stands on the site of an older building dating from Elizabethan times, when the German miners, who worked the local mineral deposits under a charter from the Crown, erected a building on the lines of a South German Stadt House, which the present building follows. It is now, somewhat ironically, the headquarters of the Keswick Branch of the British Legion.