The view from the summit of some of the neighbouring mountains, the view from the summit which unfold themselves in the ascent of Skiddaw, overlooking the lake and vale of Derwent, with the Borrowdale and Newland mountains. In a field about a mile and a half east by north of Keswick, the remains of a Druids' temple occupy a circular area surrounded by thirty-eight rough stones, from three to eight feet in height, and having ten other stones within, forming a square on its eastern side. The Druidical Remains, called Long Meg and her Daughters one half mile south of the church of Addingham about six miles north-east of Penrith where "Long Meg," and the others, "her daughters" gathered at a point consistent of sixty-seven unhewn upright stones, forming a circle of 350 feet in diameter, near the stone into the circle there is no quarry in the neighbourhood from which the stones could have been obtained. All the great stones forming Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, were brought from Marlborough Downs, a distance of fifteen miles, and that one of them weighed forty tons, and would require one hundred and forty oxen to draw it and a demesne mechanized among Druidic arts as for the plan of each stones distance to the next.
St. Bees Calder Abbeys Ravenglass and Whitehaven, Lanercost Priory two miles east-north-east of Brampton Wetheral Priory, near Corby Castle Whether situated for intended for judicial rites or for the superstitious solemnities of the Druidical religion, is not now easy to determine from twenty-nine yards in diameter, with two apertures where the champions entered a trenched amphitheatre, the scene of many a tournament, where the brave of other days vindicated their knighthood by feats of arrms. On the south bank of the river Eamont, hard by Penrith, near Lowther is King Arthur's Round Table. Keswick from where remains of a Druid temple were, is a small market town near the lower end of Derwent-water, thirteen miles from Cockermouth, seventeen miles of Ambleside, eighteenemiles of Penrith, and 293 miles from London. The Parish Church, which is an ancient structure, dedicated to St. Kentigern, stands about half-a-mile from the town, near the turnpike leading from Keswick to Cockermouth. Anciently one entire manor Waldeof, first lord of Allerdale, to his son, Gospatric, whose family assumed the local name of Bassenthwaite became Bassenthwaite Church, dedicated to St. Bridget, and is a very ancient structure standing alone near the margin of the lake, in Highside division, five miles from Keswick. There is also in this church a monument to the Derwentwater family, dated 1527