Course glossary

A corrie loch (also known as a tarn) is a mountain lake or pool.

Kubla (or Kublai) Khan was the founder of the Yuan dynasty in China.

For the Lakes poets, it meant that they were the Official Royal Poet.

A lake or pond -any body of water -see Grasmere or Windermere.

thoughtful (as "In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye" in Wordsworth's "Daffodils".

A tarn (also known as a corrie loch) is a mountain lake or pool.

A clearing, a piece of cleared forest land.

This was in what is now Inner Mongolia and was the summer capital of the Dynasty of Kubla Khan