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• A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, With a Return Down the Rhine; To Which Are Added, Observations During a Tour to the Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland (second edition, 2 volumes; London: G .G. and J. Robinson, 1795), by Ann Radcliffe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A guide to the lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire (Printed for W. Richardson ... : J. Robson, and W. Clarke ... : and W. Pennington, ..., 1793), by Thomas West, William Byrne, James Caldwall, and William Cockin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire (Printed for Richardson and Urquhart ..., J. Robson ..., and W. Pennington, Kendal, 1780), by Thomas West and William Cockin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage en différentes parties de l'Angleterre, et particulièrement dans les montagnes & sur les lacs du Cumberland & du Westmoreland : contenant des observations relatives aux beautés pittoresques (Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, libr. ... ;, 1789), by William Gilpin, Richmond Blamire, André Defer de Maisonneueve, and Pierre Guédon de Berchère (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland (Printed for R. Blamire ..., 1786), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, with a Return Down the Rhine, Vol. 2 (of 2): To Which Are Added Observations during a Tour to the Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland; Second Edition, by Ann Ward Radcliffe (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, with a Return Down the Rhine, Vol. 1 (of 2): To Which Are Added Observations during a Tour to the Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, by Ann Ward Radcliffe (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Rambles in the Lake Country and its Borders (London: Whitaker and Co., 1861), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)
• In Lakeland dells and fells (Chatto & Windus, 1903), by William Thomas Palmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English lakes. ([London], 1914), by London and North-Western Railway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English lake district (Dulau & Co., 1902), by Mountford John Byrde Baddeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rock-climbing in the English Lake District. (G.P. Abraham, 1900), by Owen Glynne Jones, Ashley Perry Abraham, George D. Abraham, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the Lakes : dedicated to the lovers of landscape studies, and to all who have visited, or intend to visit, the lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire (Printed for Richardson and Urquhart and W. Pennington, 1778), by Thomas West (page images at HathiTrust)
• The northern tourist : seventy-three views of lake and mountain scenery, etc. in Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, & Northumberland (Fisher, 1837), by Gage D'Amitie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crag and hound in Lakeland (Hurst and Blackett, 1902), by Claude Ernest Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the English lakes (J. Garnett, 1855), by Harriet Martineau and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland (H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson, 1832), by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, and Thomas Rose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland (Fisher, Son, & Co., 1833), by Thomas Allom and Thomas Rose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rambles in the lake country and other travel sketches (J. Heywood, 1893), by Edwin Waugh, Cynthia Morgan St. John, George Milner, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Highways and byways in the Lake District (Macmillan, 1903), by A. G. Bradley and Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tourist's new guide, containing a description of the lakes, mountains, and scenery, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, with some account of their bordering towns and villages. Being the result of observations made during a residence of eighteen years in Ambleside and Keswick. (R. Lough and co., 1819), by William Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• A trip to the English lakes in May, 1864. (Robertson and Calvert, printers, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A fortnight's ramble to the lakes in Westmoreland, Lancashire, and Cumberland (J. Nichols, 1810), by Joseph Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Highways and byways in the Lake district (Macmillan and Co., 1919), by A. G. Bradley and Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A concise description of the English lakes (The author; [etc., etc.], 1827), by Jonathan Otley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vagabond's way : haphazard wanderings on the fells (Murray, 1914), by Nancy Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire (Whitaker, Treacher, & Co., 1831), by John Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rambles at home : being a tour to a few of the principal manufacturing towns of England; to the lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland; and a visit to Edinburgh, in the summer of 1839. (Printed by H. H. Hunt, 1840), by Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful things in the Lake District. (James Ivison, 1890), by guide Antiquarian and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A concise description of the English lakes and adjacent mountains : with general directions to tourists, notices of the botany, mineralogy, and geology of the district, observations on meteorology, the floating island in Derwent Lake, and the black-lead mine in Borrowdale (The Author ;, 1830), by Jonathan Otley and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lakes of England (T.J. Allman, 1869), by W. F. Topham and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Over sands to the lakes. (A. Ireland, 1860), by Edwin Waugh and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motor ways in lakeland (Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1913), by George D. Abraham and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description of sixty studies from nature (Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810), by William Green, Cynthia Morgan St. John, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A descriptive guide to the English lakes and adjacent mountains: with notices of the botany, mineralogy, and geology of the district (Published by the author ;, 1849), by Jonathan Otley and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A descriptive guide to the English lakes and adjacent mountains; with notices of the botany, mineralogy, and geology of the district. (Published by the author;, 1842), by Jonathan Otley, Wordsworth Collection, and Marsden Mechanics' Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
• English lake scenery (Marcus Ward & Co., 1875), by Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham, W. J. Loftie, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A companion to the lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire : in a descriptive account of a family tour, and excursions on horseback and on foot, with a new, copious, and correct itinerary (Hurst, Chance, 1830), by Edward Baines (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heart of Lakeland (Sherratt & Hughes, 1908), by Lehmann J. Oppenheimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Odd corners in English lakeland; rambles, scrambles, climbs and sport (Skeffington, 1914), by William T. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• English lake scenery (John Walker and Company, 96, Farringdon Street, 1880), by A. F. Lydon (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Lakeland Dells and Fells, by William T. Palmer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Old Man; or, Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone, by Alexander Craig Gibson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rock-climbing in the English Lake District: Third Edition, by Owen Glynne Jones (Gutenberg ebook)

• Black's picturesque guide to the English lakes, including the geology of the district (A. and C. Black, 1874), by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our English lakes, mountains, and waterfalls, as seen by William Wordsworth. (Provost, 1870), by William Wordsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our English lakes, mountains, and waterfalls (A.W. Bennett, 1864), by William Wordsworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Journey Through England, in Familiar Letters From a Gentleman Here to a Friend Abroad (2 volumes; 1722), by John Macky
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• A Tour to the West of England, in 1788 (London: Printed for Robson & Clarke, and J. Walker, 1789), by Stebbing Shaw (page images in Germany)
• A Voyage to England: Containing Many Things Relating to the State of Learning, Religion, and Other Curiosities of that Kingdom (London: J. Woodward, 1709), by Samuel Sorbière and Thomas Sprat (page images in Germany)
• Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon (London: Printed by R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1795), by Samuel Ireland (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, 1888), by Celia Fiennes, contrib. by Emily Wingfield Griffiths
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  • HTML at Vision of Britain
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• Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England, by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• An excursion to the lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland; : with a tour through part of the northern counties, in the years 1773 and 1774. (Printed for J. Wilkie ... and W. Charnley, in Newcastle., 1776), by William Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travel and roads in England. (Folger Shakespeare Library, 1960), by Virginia A. LaMar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, through England, during the reign of King Charles the Second (1669) (London : Printed for J. Mawman, Ludgate Street, 1821., 1821), by Lorenzo Magalotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels of Carl Philipp Moritz in England in 1782 (H. Milford, 1924), by Karl Philipp Moritz and P. E. Matheson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journey from Chester to London (Printed for Wilkie and Robinson ... [and 10 others], 1811), by Thomas Pennant (page images at HathiTrust)
• A fortnight's ramble to the lakes in Westmorland, Lancashire, and Cumberland. (Printed for J. Nichols, 1795), by Joseph Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on several parts of Great Britain, particularly the High-lands of Scotland, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776 (Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1808), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the western parts of England, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : to which are added, a few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight (Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the worthies of England. (AMS Press, 1965), by Thomas Fuller and P. Austin Nuttall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journal and letters of Samuel Curwen, an American in England, from 1775 to 1783; with an appendix of biographical sketches. (Little, Brown and company, 1864), by Samuel Curwen and George Atkinson Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• A six weeks tour through the southern counties of England and Wales : describing particularly ... : with descriptions and copper-plates, of such newly invented implements of husbandry as deserve to be generally known :interspersed with accounts of the seats of the nobility and gentry, and other objects worthy of notice (Printed for W. Strahan ... [and 4 others], 1772), by Arthur Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 (Macmillan, 1892), by Pehr Kalm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain, particularly the High-lands of Scotland (Printed for R. Blamire ..., 1789), by William Gilpin, Richmond Blamire, Sawrey Gilpin, and Samuel Alken (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new display of the beauties of England: or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial ... (Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers, and by R. Baldwin, 1776) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viaggio in Inghilterra (Tipografia di Alvisopoli, 1824), by Carlo Castone della Torre di Rezzonico (page images at HathiTrust)
• A journey into Cornwall, through the counties of Southampton, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset & Devon: : interspersed with remarks, moral, historical, literary, and political. (Printed and sold by H. Sharpe; and F. & C. Rivington ... London., 1799), by George Lipscomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the western parts of England, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty; to which are added, a few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight. (Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798), by William Gilpin and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of England; or, A description of each particular county, in regard to the curious productions of nature and art. (Printed and sold by W. Owen, 1759), by Benjamin Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal and letters of the late Samuel Curwen judge of admiralty, etc., a loyalist-refugee in England, during the American revolution. To which are added, illustrative documents and other eminent men. (Leavitt, Trow & co. ; [etc., etc.], 1845), by Samuel Curwen and George Atkinson Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelles observations sur l'Angleterre (Veuve Duchesne, 1779), by Gabriel-François Coyer, John Wilkes, and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journey into South Wales, through the counties of Oxford, Warwick, Worcester, Hereford, Salop, Stasfford, Buckingham, and Hertford; in the year 1799. (T. N. Longman & O. Rees, 1802), by George Lipscomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anteckningar under en resa i England, åren 1797, 1798 och 1799 (Tryckt hos J. P. Lindh, 1811), by Gustaf Broling and Bruks Societeten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kalm's account of his visit to England on his way to America in 1748. (Macmillan and co., 1892), by Per Kalm and Joseph Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• England und Italien (Bey Christian Gottlieb Schmieder, 1787), by Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz, Christian Gottlieb Schmieder, and G. J. Cöntgen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere du roy tres-chrestien, dans la Grande Bretagne (Re-printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, for T. Payne and W. Brown, 1775), by Étienne Perlin, M. de La Serre, Richard Gough, and James Basire (page images at HathiTrust)
• New display of the beauties of England (Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers ..., & R. Baldwin ..., 1776), by Robert Goadby (page images at HathiTrust)
• En resa til Norra America p a Kongl. Swenska Wetenskaps Academiens befallung och publici kostnad (Tryckt p a Lars Salvi Kostnad, 1753), by Pehr Kalm (page images at HathiTrust)
• En resa til Norra America p a Kongl. Swenska Wetenskaps Academiens befallung och publici kostnad (Tryckt p a Lars Salvi Kostnad, 1756), by Pehr Kalm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Herrn Peter Kalms ... Beschreibung der Reise die er nach dem nö rdlichen Amerika auf den Befehl gedachter Akademie und öffentliche Kosten unternommen hat (Im Verlage der Wittwe Abrams Vandenhoek, 1754), by Pehr Kalm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Herrn Peter Kalms ... Beschreibung der Reise die er nach dem nö rdlichen Amerika auf den Befehl gedachter Akademie und öffentliche Kosten unternommen hat (Im Verlage der Wittwe Abrams Vandenhoek, 1757), by Pehr Kalm (page images at HathiTrust)
• A journey into England (Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1757), by Paul Hentzner, Horace Walpole, R. Bentley, and London Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants (Printed for Lockyer Davis ..., 1772), by Pierre Jean Grosley and Thomas Nugent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the western parts of England, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : to which are added, a few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight (Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies ..., 1798), by William Gilpin and Cadell & Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on several parts of the counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. Relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1769. To which is added, A criticism on Lord Orford's pictures at Houghton-Hall. (London, 1809), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A picturesque guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, the River Avon, and the adjacent country (Printed for Hookham and Carpenter ..., 1793), by Julius Ibbetson, J. Hassell, and John Laporte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Angliæ notitia : or the present state of England: With Divers remarks upon The Ancient State thereof. By Edw. Chamberlayne, Doctor of Laws. In Three Parts. (Printed by T.H. for S. Smith and B. Walford, M. Wotton, G. Sawbridge, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, and T. Leigh. And sold by James Round at the Sencca's Head in Exchange Alley, 1702), by Edward Chamberlayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Angliae notitiae, or, The present state of England, the second part (Printed for and are to be sold by R. Bentley ..., 1684), by Edward Chamberlayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation d'un voyage en Angleterre où sont touchées plusieurs choses qui regardent l'estat des sciences & de la religion & autres matieres curieuses. (Chez Pierre Michel, 1666), by Samuel Sorbière (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Smith's description of England (Printed by S. Austin and sons], 1879), by William Smith, Edmund W. Ashbee, Henry B. Wheatley, and Stephen Austin and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through England on a side saddle in the time of William and Mary. (Field & Tuer;, 1888), by Celia Fiennes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan England: From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison, by William Harrison, ed. by Lothrop Withington (Gutenberg ebook)
• Part of this summers travels, or News from hell, Hull, and Hallifax, from York, Linne, Leicester, Chester, Coventry, Lichfield, Nottingham, and the Divells Ars a peake With many pleasant passages, worthy your observation and reading. By Iohn Taylor. ([London] : Imprinted by I[ohn] O[kes], [1639]), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The pennyles pilgrimage, or The money-lesse perambulation, of Iohn Taylor, alias the Kings Majesties water-poet How he trauailed on foot from London to Edenborough in Scotland, not carrying any money to or fro, neither begging, borrowing, or asking meate, drinke or lodging. With his description of his entertainment in all places of his iourney, and a true report of the vnmatchable hunting in the brea of Marre and Badenoch in Scotland. With other obseruations, some serious and worthy of memory, and some merry and not hurtfull to be remembred. Lastly that (which is rare in a trauailer) all is true. (London : Printed by Edw: All-de, at the charges of the author, 1618), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Saint Albans chronicle. ([Enprynted at Londo[n] : In powlys chyrche yarde at the west dore of powlys besyde my lorde of londons palays by me Iulyan Notary, In the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC.xv. [1515]]), by Ranulf Higden and John Trevisa (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Saint Albans chronicle. ([Imprynted at London : In Fletestrete at the sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de Worde, the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC. [et] xxviij. the .ix. daye of Apryll] [1528]), by Ranulf Higden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A journey to England With some account of the manners and customs of that nation. Written at the command of a nobleman in France. Made English. (London : printed, and sold by A. Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms-Inn in Warwick-Lane, 1700), by John Evelyn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The certain travailes of an uncertain journey begun on Tuesday the 9. of August, and ended on Saturday the 3. of September following, 1653. Wherein the readers may take notice, that the authors purpose was to travell, and write this following relation, for no other intent or purpose, but to pleasure himself, and to please his friends in the first place. By John Taylor, at the sign of the Poets Head, in Phœniz [sic] Alley, near the Globe Tavern, in the middle of Long-Acre nigh the Covent-Garden. Those twelve following lines I gave to divers gentlemen and friends, before I went, and as they have kindly subscribed to my bill, I [d]o humbly expect their courteous acceptation of this booke. ([London : s.n., 1654]), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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