We popped to Kirkby Lonsdale on Friday. We took a different route from our normal route, in order to drive through Caton, and past the Crook o'Lune.
The Crook o'Lune was much admired by the poet, Thomas Gray, who visited this spot – or somewhere near it – in 1769 and expressed the opinion that “every feature which constitutes a perfect landscape of the extensive sort is here not only boldly marked but in its best position”.
Gray's opinion of the Crook o’Lune probably encouraged J.M.W. Turner to pause here too, in 1816, leading to his celebrated painting of the view.
The view is somewhat different today, but it is still very lovely, and just on our doorstep.
