Grasmere (lake) in 1893. Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley felt that such a location should instead be in public ownership, and soon afterwards started the National Trust with Octavia Hill and Robert Hunter. " 'The lake flanked by grass'; 'gres', 'mere'. Early spellings in 'Grys-', 'Gris(s)-' might suggest ON 'griss' 'young pig' as 1st el.[ement], but the weight of the evidence points to OE/ON 'gres' 'grass', with the modern form influenced by Standard English...The medial '-s(s)e-' may, as suggested by Eilert Ekwall in DEPN, point to ON 'gres-saer' 'grass-lake' as the original name.". Plus the element "'mere' OE, ModE 'lake, 'pool'". Grasmere (lake) Grasmere
Keswick School of Industrial Art Keswick School of Industrial Art Keswick School of Industrial Art (KSIA) was founded in 1884 by Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley and his wife Edith as an evening class in woodwork and repoussé metalwork at the Crosthwaite Parish Rooms, in Keswick, Cumbria. The enterprise, designed to alleviate unemployment, prospered, and within ten years more than a hundred men were attending classes. A new building was erected for the school at a nearby site. The school closed in 1984 and the building became a restaurant. Rawnsley was the vicar of Crosthwaite, at the edge of Keswick, from 1883 to 1917. He was one