A verse from the hymn 'There Is A Book That All May Read' by Keble, located on one of the Heywood Memorial Stones situated on the footpath at the entrance to Orrest Head in Windermere.
The stone tablet is set into a stone wall to the right hand side of a kissing gate on the public footpath.
It forms part of the Heywood Memorial. (
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'There is a book, who runs may read', is the first line of the poem by J. Keble. The poem in 12 stanzas of 4 lines was written in 1819, and published in 1827, as the poem for Septuagesima Sunday. The quote on the stone tablet is the final stanza. (
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The inscription reads as follows;
"THOU, WHO HAST GIVEN ME EYES TO SEE
AND LOVE THIS SIGHT SO FAIR
GIVE ME A HEART TO FIND OUT THEE,
AND READ THEE EVERYWHERE"
KEBLE."
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"Author: John Keble
Keble, John, M.A., was born at Fairford, in Gloucestershire, on St. Mark's Day, 1792. His father was Vicar of Coln St. Aldwin's, about three miles distant, but lived at Fairford in a house of his own, where he educated entirely his two sons, John and Thomas, up to the time of their entrance at Oxford.
In 1806 John Keble won a Scholarship at Corpus Christi College, and in 1810 a Double First Class, a distinction which up to that time had been gained by no one except Sir Robert Peel. In 1811 he was elected a Fellow of Oriel, a very great honour, especially for a boy under 19 years of age; and in 1811 he won the University Prizes both for the English and Latin Essays."Source: (
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The stone tablet to the left of the kissing gate bearing an inscription in memory of Arthur Henry Heywood, reads as follows;
"THIS STONE
WAS PLACED HERE IN THE YEAR 1902
BY THE INHABITANTS OF WINDERMERE
IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE WIDE AND
BENEFICIENT LIBERALITY OF THE LATE
ARTHUR HENRY HEYWOOD
OF ELLERAY
AND AS A MARK OF GRATITUDE
TO HIS WIDOW AND DAUGHTER WHO
AS A MEMORIAL OF HIM DEDICATED
ORREST HEAD TO THE USE OF THE
PUBLIC FOR EVER"
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