Whilst we were staying in the Lake District a few weeks ago we drove through the Honister Pass, one of the highest passes in Cumbria. It connects the Buttermere Valley with the eastern end of Borrowdale Valley. There is a slate mine but we didn’t have time to take a tour – just enough time for a quick drink and a look round the cafe/shop/showroom and stone garden.
The little stone garden is most unusual:
and they fly the flag in the cafe:
as well as in words on this slate at the entrance:
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The Honister Pass looks rather bleak and forbidding!
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Great photos! I love the stone garden. Have a great weekend, Margaret!
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Margaret – What lovely ‘photos of a beautiful place! And that stone garden is really interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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A beautiful, bleak place. Would love to see it.
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What a wonderful little place to visit. It almost looks like the mountains in the south island of New Zealand.
Sean at His and Her Hobbies
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The Lake District always makes me think of Jane Austen and Pride & Prejudice. 🙂 It looks beautiful. Thanks for sharing your pictures!
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I love the stone garden and the cafe…and the sweeping majesty of the pass. Thanks for sharing…and here’s MY SATURDAY SNAPSHOT POST
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I haven’t been to that part of the Lake District, it looks quite bleak.
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the first photo looks remote and then the town, well how unusual.
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What a surprise! This is not at all the sort of landscape I’d expect to find in England. I enjoyed your photos of the stone garden. Unusual and stark, but appealing too.
Sandy @Texas Twang
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I’m trying to remember if we went over that pass on our one visit to The Lake District about 20 years ago. I don’t think so as I don’t remember that cafe. Lovely photos though.
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Hi Margaret,
The only time we spent some quality time up in the Lake District, it rained for the entire week, except for the last day, so my memories are of very misty, rain sodden scenery.
We really must make a return trip one of these days, as we totally underestimate and underappreciate the beauty of our own country. It’s just such a shame that we can’t guarantee the great British weather!
I love the cafe and unusual slate garden shots and of course the patriotic poem, which stirs the heart on this Sunday morning!
Thanks for sharing,
Yvonne.
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Stunning scenery. And the garden is lovely, too, in its smaller drama.
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