Friar’s Crag, Derwentwater
With Walla Crag and Lord’s Island.
The Head of Derwentwater
From Castle Hill, a quarter of an hour’s walk from Keswick. Borrowdale and Scawfell Pike are well seen in the middle background; the islands from left to right, are Rampsholme, Lord’s Isle, and St. Herbert’s Island.
That was in 1715. A thousand years before, the large island far up the lake was the home of Saint Herbert, the fidus Achates of the venerable Saint Cuthbert who often visited him here. So great was their mutual love and esteem that they expressed a desire that both should die at the same time “so that their souls might wing their flight to Heaven in company.” And although on Saint Herbert’s Island,
“The hermit numbered his last day
Far from Saint Cuthbert, his beloved friend,
These holy men both died in the same hour.”