An area of extreme contrasts, from the close-packed but proudly independent textile towns north of Manchester to the romantic scenery of the southern Lake District, and from high Pennine moors to the sandy beaches of Bloackpool and the Fylde Coast. Wordsworth's poem describes how the beauty of the ruins of Furness Abbey reduced even a gang of railway navvies to reverential silence. Many gentry houses display a tenacious local brand of Jacobean; others, including the Pugins' Scarisbrick, demonstrate the strong local affinity with the Gothic Revival. Voysey's internationally important Arts-and-Crafts houses in Lakeland sit happily alongside the whitewashed local cottages.
- ISBN10 0300096178
- ISBN13 9780300096170
- Publish Date 11 March 1969
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 February 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English