Posted by Dave Thewlis on November 16, 2011 at 18:56:27 user dthewlis.
Browsing through John Wilson Parker's wonderful "An Atlas of the English Lakes" I stumbled across this note on Chart II of Coniston Water (Page 41):
"Arthur Ransome, author of "Swallows & Amazons", most celebrated of his many delightful children's novels enjoyed an equally fascinating life story. He settled in Furness & based his favourite adventures here on Coniston Water and Windermere - the scenes of euphoric boyhood holidays..."
I am not sure the word "settled" would ever have been appropriate for Ransome, at least for very long. And I'm confused by the reference to Furness in any case. Can anyone shed light on this? Or has Mr. Parker very uncharacteristically got something wrong?