16. Bowness Promenade
Bowness Promenade is well designed, with comfortable seats under leafy shade, from which can be enjoyed the sight of red-cushioned row-boats, electric launches, yachts, and the occasional arrival of the Lake steamers at Bowness Pier - a scene of great stir and holiday bustle.
Near Ferry Nab, Windermere, is one of the sweetest spots on the lake and is reached from Bowness by a very pretty walk past Cockshott Point. The crossing by ferry, en route to Esthwaite and Coniston, is a most enjoyable experience.
Old England Hotel, heavily ivied and built of the grey local stone, is in entire keeping with the countryside, and its colourful gardens and lawns sweeping down to the lake add greatly to the charm of the bay.
Windermere Looking North.- In the mid-distance is Storrs Hall, now an hotel, reminiscent of the historic occasion when Wordsworth, Southey, and Christopher North here welcomed Sir Walter Scott to a yachting regatta held in honour of the "Great Northern Minstrel." Ferry Nab and Belle Isle are well seen, with the long summit ridge of Helvellyn beyond.
