'Claife Heights viewing Station'
Location : Far Sawrey
Map - Ordnance Survey - SD 387957
At Claife Heights, is Claife Station, built in the 1790s - a viewpoint where visitors can look at
Lake Windermere. It was most fashionable with tourists in the 1830s and 40s.
The windows of the drawing room were the Station's most celebrated feature; each had a different aspect,
viewed through different coloured glass to enhance variations in weather and seasons. The tinted glass
in these windows was intended to recreate lighting effects in the landscape. Yellow represented summer,
orange was for autumn, light green for spring, and light blue for winter. There was also a dark blue
for moonlight and a lilac tint to give the impression of a thunderstorm.
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View from Claife Heights to Bowness-on-Windermere
Photo by Tony Richards |
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| Claife Station from Windermere lake |
You can walk to the viewing station along a footpath from the ferry crossing
to Near Sawrey.
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Page created 8 Feb 2006. Last changed 27 Feb 2006.
