Glenridding House

Records show that he bought the land from John Mounsey who owned the Manor of Glenridding, in 1807.

This is known because in this year William Green, the famous English landscape painter published a series of prints each of which was described.

In June 1881 Charles Darwin stayed at Glenridding House with his family for a five-week holiday.

She said: it was an especial happiness to my mother for the rest of her life to remember her little strolls with my father to the side of the lake.

I have a vivid picture in my mind of the two often setting off alone together for a certain favourite walk by the edge of some fine rocks going sheer down into the lake[8]Darwin himself wrote of the holiday, saying "This place is magnificently beautiful, and I enjoy the scenery".