I'm going ...........

[kimbowbill]

I thought it appropriate. I trust she is as beautiful as her namesake. Thinking of you and the family xxx

PS. Now you can think of her name as the beautiful river Eden in Cumbria instead of the Eden project! You'll just need to come and visit to store some beautiful memories with the name.

I will visit for sure, and thanks Jess, i will email you with an update xx

 

[kimbowbill]

Congratulations Jen..........a lovely grandaughter :banana::banana: and what a gorgeous name x

Jac

Thanks jac, not had much chance to see her yet, theres been a few complications, i will pass all the lovely messages on to my daughter xx

 

[scampa]

EDEN! till now thy beauty had I viewed
By glimpses only, and confess with shame
That verse of mine, whate’er its varying mood,
Repeats but once the sound of thy sweet name:

William Wordsworth



Congratulations. I hope that you will be bringing her (and perhaps her mum) to visit the River Eden; the upper Eden valley is one of the most beautiful unspoiled areas in Cumbria, with many a stunning wilding spot which overlooks the valley. A grand choice of name. xx

Actually, I found the verse quite touching and thoughtful too, and I agree with the comments about the Eden valley! :ditto:

 

[whitevanwoman]

One of my favourite places ever, I know it well, and have spent many a happy hour with the dog on moorland footpaths, exploring ruined castles, admiring a great view across to the Solway on a good day, reading up on it's history, and photographing and sketching old stone barns and tumbledown lime kilns. I house sit regularly for friends who live in a remote valley off the Eden Valley, not far from Tan Hill, and being there alone with the dogs, romping round their fields and wood, 4 miles from the nearest village and over a mile to the nearest neighbours, along a private road, is wonderful, my own little piece of paradise.

I've kept quiet about some of the best wilding spots for purely selfish reasons - it would be horrible to see the area become like the Lake District in the summer, but if anyone is visiting, PM me and I'll share a few.

 

[scampa]

One of my favourite places ever, I know it well, and have spent many a happy hour with the dog on moorland footpaths, exploring ruined castles, admiring a great view across to the Solway on a good day, reading up on it's history, and photographing and sketching old stone barns and tumbledown lime kilns. I house sit regularly for friends who live in a remote valley off the Eden Valley, not far from Tan Hill, and being there alone with the dogs, romping round their fields and wood, 4 miles from the nearest village and over a mile to the nearest neighbours, along a private road, is wonderful, my own little piece of paradise.

I'm lucky enough to live in a position like that.. my nearest neighbours (farmers) are about a mile away, and the nearest small village is three miles. The single track-road isn't private, but only really used by farm vehicles, dog-walkers and the odd fisherman (not that all fisherman are odd!). I really can go for days without seeing anyone!

And some Wordsworth trivia... Many years ago, as an alternative to wilding tours, we used to rent a self-catering holiday cottage in Easedale (Grasmere) for a week or two each year. This cottage had once been owned by the "Green" family, who were friends of Wordsworth, and he would sometimes call in there on his rambles around the fells. So he may have even put the finishing touches to "Eden" while he was there?

Tragically, Mr and Mrs Green died one night when they were caught in a snow storm while walking home over the fells from Langdale, with their children waiting at home for them. This was in the days before modern communications and organised mountain rescue teams of course. They are buried in Grasmere churchyard, not far from Wordsworth. You could even buy a book about them, called "The Greens of Grasmere".

(the things you can learn on a WildCamping forum, huh??)

 

[whitevanwoman]

Scampa, that sounds wonderful. If you ever need a house-sitter, let me know.

I'm sure I've heard the tragic story about the Greens before. I know Easedale, I discovered it through a map reading error on top of the Langdale Pikes in bad weather and was about halfway down, before I realised that I was going to end up in Grasmere instead of Langdale and that it would be a long walk back to the Dungeon Ghyll where the van was parked!. Lesson learned - the compass is virtually never wrong (unless in the Cuillen) and the map is not often wrong, but the brain and memory can be frequently wrong!

 

[scampa]

There's a good chance that the path you'd started to take down towards Easedale (if you were on a path) ran alongside Blindtarn Gill. If you had continued, you would have come down to Blindtarn House, which was where the Greens lived. (The barn was also converted into a holiday home and is called Blindtarn Cottage). It's a couple of fields to the South of Brimmer Head Farm and the much busier path up to Easedale Tarn.

I don't seem to be able to post a link, but if you copy and paste these co-ordinates into Google Earth you'll see where it is. Someone has even added a couple of photo's of it on there!

54.464641,-3.04567