Ruskin's View, Kirkby Lonsdale

Back in Kirkby Lonsdale we take a look at this famous view.

“Feast your eyes on a breathtaking panorama of the Lune Valley and Underley Hall – the famous, heavenly Ruskin’s View. This scene was painted by the artist JMW Turner in 1822 and the picture so impressed the 19th century art critic, social theorist, painter and poet John Ruskin, that he wrote: ‘I do not know in all my country, still less in France or Italy, a place more naturally divine.’ In 1875, Ruskin described the panorama as ‘one of the loveliest views in England, therefore in the world’.” www.exploresouthlakeland.co.uk

To approach this view, one walks through the grounds of the beautiful Norman Church of St Mary the Virgin. See PiP

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