WINDERMERE :
QUEEN ADELAIDE'S HILL AND MILLERGROUND GLEN AND LANDING.
[To THZ EDITOR Cr SUR "SPECTATOR."]
opportunity has arisen for purchasing on behalf of the public the above beautiful property on the shores of Windermere, consisting of the hill immediately to the south of Millerground, known as Queen Adelaide's Hill, with its lake foreshore, and the wooded glen and stream leading down to the boat-landing, together with the cottage and boathouse. There is no isolated hill contiguous to the main road and accessible from the lake anywhere between Bowness and Ambleside from which such incomparable views of Winder- mere can be obtained. Not only is the whole of the lake northward seen, but looking south the eye passes over the whole of the indented shores and wooded islands as far as the ferry, and is carried on beyond that to Gummershow and Lake- side, while the fells from Coniston Old Man in the west right round by Bowfell, the Langdales, Silver Howe, Fairfield to the High Street range in the east, are visible. Owing to private purchases in the past few years the public have really no rights of wandering on any part of the shore between Bowness and Waterhead, and it will be a great boon to have a considerable length of wooded shore and the beautiful grassy hill above it with such a prospect available for their enjoyment.
We have been in communication with the Trustees of the property for some time, and they have now given us an option expiring in June, 1913, to purchase the property already described, amounting to about twenty acres, with the cottage and boathouse, for the sum of £5,000, which, in view of the prices for land obtaining in the neighbourhood, is not considered excessive. It is proposed to vest the pro- perty, if acquired, with the National Trust, for the benefit of the nation at large. This would ensure its natural beauties remaining undisturbed. That the local public are interested in the matter is quite plain from the fact that before we issued this appeal £2,800 out of the £5,000 has been locally promised. We have, therefore, no hesitation in appealing to the larger public who are lovers of the English Lakes. The time in which the money is to be raised is limited. It is therefore hoped that all to whom this scheme commends itself will send their subscriptions, or promises, at an early date, either to S. H. Hamer, Esq., Secretary, National Trust, 25, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.; Canon Rawnsley, Hon. Secretary to the National Trust, Crosthwaite Vicarage, Keswick ; or to Gordon Somervell, Esq., Annesdale, Winder-
mere.—We are, Sir, &c., S. H. HAMER.
H. D. RAWNSLEY.
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