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Esthwaite Water, Lancashire

Historical Description

Esthwaite Water, a lake in the N of Lancashire, extending SSE from the vicinity of Hawkshead toward Win-dermere. Its length is about 2 miles, its greatest breadth about half a mile, its surface-elevation above sea-level 198 feet, its greatest depth 80 feet, its general appearance calm and cheerful, without any striking feature. Its chief feeder is a brook that rises in Yavdale Fells. It abounds with trout, perch, pike, and eels, and from it flows the Cunsey Beck to connect it with Windermere. Wordsworth went daily round it when attending school at Hawkshead, and he loved to skate on it in winter, and talks in his verses of " hissing along its polished ice in games confederate."

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.