Please enjoy this wonderful post from John Bainbridge!
One of the loveliest and easiest routes in the Lakes is along the old corpse route from Chapel Stile to Grasmere. Some beautiful scenery and a wonderful paved path some of the way. Until the church at Chapel Stile was built, the dead of the Langdale Valley would have been carried to Grasmere for burial.
It’s a short route, so with a minor variation, we walked it in both directions, from Grasmere to Chapel Stile and then back again.
We walked up the lane from Grasmere to Huntingstile, where almost immediately you arrive at the paved section of the path. It seems almost miraculous to me that such old paths have survived as much as they have. It’s why we really must fight to preserve the original lines of our ancient rights of way. Take them away and you take away a hugely important part of…
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Beautiful pictures. I’ve always loved the scenery of these small English villages.
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