Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Brothers' Parting Stone | |
| other name:- | Stone of Parting | |
| locality:- | Grisedale | |
| parish |
Patterdale parish, once in
Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| stone; memorial | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY35231234 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY31
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| 1Km square | NY3512 | |
 Brothers' Parting Stone -- Grisedale -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 17.3.2009 | ||
 Brothers' Parting Stone -- Grisedale -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 17.3.2009 | ||
| hearsay |
The stone is where William and Dorothy Wordsworth parted
from their brother John Wordsworth, 29 September 1800.
Dorothy Wordsworth records this:-
It was a fine day, showery, but with sunshine and fine clouds. Poor fellow my heart was right sad. I could not help thinking, we should see him again, because he was only going to Penrith. From Penrith, John Wordsworth went to command the Earl of Abergavenny. They met again in London, 1802. John was drowned when his ship was wrecked oof the coast of Dorset, 1805. In June 1805, William and Dorothy Wordsworth visited this place again, and the poet wrote Elegaic Verses in Memory of My Brother. Canon H D Rawnsley arranged for some lines from these verses to be inscribed on the rock, 1882:- | |
| hearsay |
There was a stone here, inscribed in memory of the parting
of William Wordsworth and his brother John, 1800. John was
drowned when his ship, The Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked
off Portland Bill, Dorset, 5 February 1805.
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| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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