This road is now used only as a footpath; but, fifty or sixty years ago it was the highroad to Isel, a hamlet on the Derwent, about three and a half miles from Cockermouth, in the direction of Bassenthwaite Lake.

The hill is locally called 'the Hay,' but on the Ordnance map it is marked 'Watch Hill.'" There can be little doubt as to the accuracy of this suggestion.

No other hill-road is visible from the house or garden at Cockermouth.

The view from the front of the old mansion is limited by houses, doubtless more so now than in last century; but there is no hill towards the Lorton Fells on the south or south-east, with a road over it, visible from any part of the town.

Besides, as this was a very early experience of Wordsworth's--it was in "the morn of childhood" that the road was "daily present to his sight"-- it must have been seen, either from the house or from the garden.