'Keswick - John Ruskin Memorial'

Location : Keswick
Map - Ordnance Survey - NY 264223

THE FIRST THING WHICH I REMEMBER AS AN EVENT IN LIFE WAS BEING TAKEN BY MY NURSE TO THE BROW OF FRIARS CRAG ON DERWENTWATER

In October 1900 mainly due to the efforts of Canon Rawnsley, a simple memorial of Borrowdale slate was erected at Friars Crag on Derwentwater to John Ruskin (1819-1900), who had many associations with Keswick. He once said Keswick was a place almost too beautiful to live in. The monument is a grade II listed structure.

The few square yards round the memorial were the first bit of the Lake District to become property of the National Trust.