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An area of extreme contrasts, from the close-packed but proudly independent textile towns
north of Manchester to the romantic scenery of the southern Lake District, and from high
Pennine moors to the sandy beaches of Blackpool and the Fylde Coast. Wordsworth's poem
describes how the the beauty of the ruins of Furness Abbey reduced even a gang of railway
navvies to reverential silence. Many gentry houses display a tenacious local brand of
Jacobean; others, including the Pugins' Scarisbrick, demonstrate the strong local affinity with
the Gothic Revival. Voysey's internationally important Arts-and-Crafts houses in Lakeland
sit happily alongside the whitewashed local cottages.
