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Broughton-in-Furness

At the heart of this attractive, unspoilt little town is the Market Square with its tall Georgian houses, commemorative obelisk of 1810, village stocks, fish slabsand some venerable chestnut trees. The old Town Hall, occupying the whole of one side of the square, dates back to 1766 and now houses the town's Tourist Information Centre and the Clocktower Gallery, which exhibits paintings, ceramics, mirrors and glassware. On 1 August each year, Broughton's Lord of the Manor comes to the Square to read out the market charter granted by Elizabeth I, while councillors dispense pennies to any children in the crowd.

One of the town's famous short-term residents was Branwell Brontë, ho was employed here as a tutor at Broughton House, a splendid double-fronted, three-storey town house just off the Square. Branwell apparently found time to both enjoy the elegance of the town and to share in whatever revelries were in train.

Wordsworth often visited Broughton as a child. Throughout his life he loved ths peaceful corner of Lakeland and celebrated its chars in some 150 poems; his 20th-century poetical successor, Norman Nicholson, was similarly enchanted.

Some of the Lake District's finest scenery - the Duddon Valley, Furness Fells, Great Gable and Scafell, are all within easy reach, and about three miles west of the town is Swinside Circle, a fine prehistoric stone circle, some 60 feet in diameter, containing 52 close-set stones and two outlying 'portal' or gateway stones.

About three miles north of the town, the peaceful hamlet of Broughton Mills will attract followers of The Coleridge Trail. During the course of his famous 'circumcursion' of Lakeland in Augst 1802, the poet stopped to refresh himself at the Blacksmith's Arms where he "Dined on Oatcake and Cheese, with a pint of Ale, and two glasses of Rum and water sweetened with preserved Gooseberries". The inn, built in 1748, is still in business and barely hanged since Coleridge's visit.