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Its features include the Moot Hall; a modern theatre, the Theatre by the Lake; one of Britain's oldest surviving cinemas, the Alhambra; and the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery in the town's largest open space, Fitz Park. Among the town's annual events is the Keswick Convention, an Evangelical gathering attracting visitors from many countries.
Keswick (/ ˈ k ɛ z ɪ k /) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Keswick and Intwood, in the South Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is situated some 3 miles (4.8 km) to the south of the city of Norwich. It should not be mistaken for the coastal settlement of Keswick, near Bacton, which is also in ...
It became home to the Keswick Museum of Local and Natural History, a creation of the Keswick Literary and Scientific Society, in 1873. [6] The museum collection included a three-dimensional model of the Lake District, measuring 12 feet by 9 feet, made by Joseph and James Flintoft in 1837. [6]
The collection was established as the Keswick Museum of Local and Natural History, a creation of the Keswick Literary and Scientific Society, in the Moot Hall, in 1873. [1] An important item in the original collection at the Moot Hall was a three-dimensional model of the Lake District, measuring 12 feet by 9 feet, made by Joseph and James ...
Moot Hall: 1813 The moot hall is in stone and slate with stone dressings and quoins. At the north end is a square tower. In its lower stage is a round-headed doorway approached by a double flight of steps with wrought iron railings. The upper stage contains half-moon windows, clock faces and blind round windows, and round-headed windows.
Underskiddaw is a civil parish in the Cumberland in the English county of Cumbria.The parish lies immediately to the north of the town of Keswick, and includes the southern and eastern flanks of Skiddaw as well as part of the valley of the rivers Greta and Derwent, and a small part of Bassenthwaite Lake.
Fitz Park is a public park in Keswick, Cumbria. [1] Landscaped in the Victorian period, the park contains shrubberies and specimen trees, and provides open space for recreation. There are sports grounds for tennis and bowls, [2] and the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery is situated there. The home ground of Keswick Cricket Club is located in the park.
The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived at Greta Hall with his family from 24 July 1800 until 1803 and regularly visited William Wordsworth in Grasmere. [3] Coleridge's daughter Sara was born at Greta Hall in 1802. [4] Robert Southey and his wife came to stay with the Coleridges in 1803, and took over the tenancy of Greta Hall when Coleridge ...