HIGHEST TOMB.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 263, 20 August 1930, Page 8

HIGHEST TOMB.

MOUNTAIN-TOP BURIAL. INN LANDLORD'S LAST WISH. In a spot amid the mountains," which he had always declared would be his last resting-place, the ashes of MiMark Atkinson, aged 70, who, as the landlord of the Kirkstone Inn, the highest hotel and residence in. "the English Lakeland district, had entertained thousands of motorists and walkers during the last two decades, were interred on June 28. The grave is 2500 ft.. above sea level. Mr Atkinson gave instructions on his death bed that his remains were to be cremated at Manchester, and buried on Caudale Moor mountain, facing his home on the Kirkstone Pass. Also that his mountain pony, liillie, which he had used for 26 years, was to bear his ashes to the grave, and " never to work again. The small body of mourners who set out on the long trail included the daughter of Mr Atkinson, who was accompanied by her husband, Professor Lees, of Glasgow University. Before her wedding, three years ago, she was known throughout Lakeland as the "Maid of the Mountains," owing to her adventures on, the pony Billie. Each mourner bore the largest stone available to build a cairn over the casket containing the ashes, and above all was erected a wooden cross, cut by Mr Atkinson himself. The grave is believed to be the highest in England.