There is no copse-clad bank fronting Anne Tyson's cottage at Hawkshead.

It may have been a rock on the wooded slope of the rounded hill that rises west of Cowper Ground, north-west of Hawkshead.

A rock "wet with springs" existed there, till it was quarried for road-metal a few years since.

But it is quite possible that the cottage referred to is Dove Cottage, Grasmere.
In that case the "rock" and "copse-clad bank" may have been on Loughrigg, or more probably on Silver How.

The "summer sun" goes down behind Silver How, so that it might smite a wet rock either on Hammar Scar or on the wooded crags above Red Bank.