Low Fell Plantation

Leaving Rusland on the road to Satterthwaite

Yew Beck where it flows under Corker Lane

Church where Arthur Ransome is buried.

Kissing Gate and footpath that passes through the churchyard at Rusland Church.

Taken on a bright December morning.

Heading to Force Forge.

Arthur Mitchell Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and educated in Windermere and Rugby. he lived for a time in Russia, where he met his second wife Evgenia Shvelpina, Trotsky's secretary. Ransome married Evgenia and returned to England in 1924. Settling in the Lake District, he spent the late 1920s as a foreign correspondent and highly-respected angling columnist for the Manchester Guardian, before settling down to write Swallows and Amazons and its successors. Today Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of novels, (1931 - 1947). All remain in print and have been widely translated. Arthur Ransome died in June 1967 and is buried at Rusland Church in the Lake District.

A small hamlet that takes its name from the moss that once occupied the flat grazing land in the valley to the east.

Beside the track coming up from High Ickenthwaite

The path drops down from here to High Ickenthwaite

The chickens at Black Syke are completely happy with their feline guardian.

I asked about the eggs but just got the stony stare treatment.

No finial - 3 arms; by the UC road, in parish of Colton (South Lakeland District), Rusland, High Bridge (road) junction with unnamed lane. Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: LA_SD3389B

This is the first of two fords at Thwaite Moss.