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LITERARY RAVENGLASS

•  A few random jottings

.....And then there's Ravenglass, and the bird-haunted

Sand-dunes lagooning a derelict sea.

This, Norman, is your country and your home.

And where your verse lives rooted like a tree

To where it grows, feeding its leaves therefrom.

DAVID WRIGHT (part of his 70^th Birthday tribute poem to his friend the Millom poet Norman Nicholson (1914-1987; Wright himself lived at Portinscale)

• Norman Nicholson himself wrote a longish poem about Ravenglass Railway Station.

• The village features prominently  in Richard Adams’ book The Plague Dogs and in Hugh Walpole’s once-very-popular Herries Chronicles novels.

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Above just a tentative start, to be continued. All suggestions for inclusion gratefully received – just email: clerkmuncasterpc@gmail.com.