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Far Easedale
Much less obvious when standing next to them, the Lion and the Lamb are
passed by as the summit is left. Keep on along the path, soon descending
quite steeply and requiring careful placing of feet. Lower down, a broad
grassy path appears on the right, and this is the way to go. It appears to
be going the wrong way, heading back into Far Easedale. But it is correct,
and later is seen to sweep round to the left to face towards Grasmere.
Keep following this down (even up at one point!), and eventually it drops
to meet a wall in the valley bottom. Go right for a short distance, as far
as a clear walled gap on the left. Go through this and soon join the main
valley route, bearing left to a gate and out to the cottage at Little Parrock.
Now simply follow the surfaced lane all the way to Goody Bridge.
Those bound for Grasmere need simply keep ahead at Goody Bridge.
Those bound for Mill Bridge should turn left here, along the side road
signed for Thorney How Youth Hostel.
GRASMERE
Approaching from Dunmail Raise, Thomas Gray wrote of Grasmere, 'The bosom of the
mountains, spreading here into a broad bason, discover in the midst Grasmere-water;
its margin is hollowed into small bays with iminences; some of rock, some of soft turf,
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