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Today, I add a few more picture. Enjoy!

Hadrian’s Wall was buit by the order of the emperor Hadrian, following his visit to Britain in AD 122. It was planned as a continuous wall with a milecastle every Roman mile (1.48 km) and two turrets equally spaced between each milecastle. The wall, with its defensive ditches and large forts, stretched from coast to coast, a distance of 80 Roman miles (approximately 120 km or 75 miles). It formed the northernmost frontier of the Roman empire. Hadrian’s Wall is a World Heritage Site, designated by UNESCO.

Aira Force is located 5 km north of Glenridding and one of the prettiest, most romantic, of Lakeland forces. It is a 22 meter waterfall that’s spectacular in spate and can be viewed from stone bridges spanning the top and bottom of the drop.

The falls flank the western side of Gowbarrow Park, whose hillside still blazes green and gold in spring, as it was doing when the Wordsworths visited in April 1802. Dorothy’s sprightly recollections of the visit in her journal inspired William to write his famous Daffodils poem, though it was not until two years later that he first composed the famous lines (borrowing many of Dorothy’s exact phrases). Despite its fame now, nothing much was thought of the poem at the time; it didn’t even have a title on first publication in 1807.

From times to times I’ll use less frequent words in my future posts relating to L.D. So today I publish a few definition from COED12 (COED12 stands for Concise Oxford English Dictionary Twelfth Edition).

Ait or Eyot
▶N. [in place names] Brit. A small island in a river.

Beck
▶N. A stream.

Cairn
▶N. A mound of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark.

Dale
▶N. A valley, especially in northern England.

Fell
▶N. A hill or stretch of high moorland, especially in northern England.

Force
▶N. N. English A waterfall.

Garth
▶N. 1 Brit. An open space surrounded by cloisters. 2 archaic A yard or garden.

Ghyll or Gill
▶N. chiefly N. English 1 A deep ravine, especially a wooded one. 2 A narrow mountain stream.

Holm or Holme
▶N. Brit. 1 An islet. 2 A floodplain.

Howe
▶N. N. English A tumulus or barrow.

Kirk
▶N. Scottish & N. English A church.

Mere
▶N. literary (except in place names) A lake or pond.

Tarn
▶N. A small mountain lake.

Thorp or Thorpe
▶N. [in place names] A village or hamlet.

Thwaite
▶N. [in place names] A piece of wild land cleared or reclaimed for cultivation.

I spent last fortnight on holiday in Lake District (aka The Lakes or Lakeland). Lake District is a National Park located in Cumbria (Northern England), between Lancaster and Scottish border. It’s a land full of lakes, fells, castles, ruins, sheep, kirks, forces…

Cette année, je suis parti en vacance au Lake District. Le L. D. se situe dans le nord-ouest de l’Angleterre, grosso modo entre Lancaster et la frontière écossaise. C’est très peu connu en dehors de la Grande-Bretagne mais en Angleterre, c’est une destination très prisée. Cette région est un immense parc national d’environ 2300 km², au relief montagneux avec des lacs, des châteaux, des moutons, des ruines…

Le L. D. est associé aux ‘Lake Poets’, un groupe de poètes romantiques de la première moitié du XIX s. ayant tous vécus au L. D. Parmi eux, citons William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge et Robert Southey.