Leaving the Honister road at Seatoller, the mountain track over the Sty Pass to Wastdale ascends under the flank of Greyknotts and Brandreth to Seathwaite; and there—to the left of the track, and a short distance from the Seathwaite beck—are the remains of a grove of Yew Trees, as famous as any in the kingdom. It is thus that Wordsworth wrote of them in 1803:

“... those fraternal Four of Borrowdale,

Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ;

Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth

Of intertwisted fibres serpentine

Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved ...”