ENGLAND’S HIGHEST TOMB

Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 August 1930, Page 7

ENGLAND’S HIGHEST TOMB

INN LANDLORD'S LAST WISH. In a spot, amid the mountains, wlueh he had always declared would be ins last resting-place, the ashes of Mr Mark Atkinson, aged 70, who, as the landlord of the Kirkstone Inn, tlie 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 gravs i-s . 2500 ft above sea level. Mr Atkinson gave "instructions on bis 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, Billie, which lie hod used for 26 yeans, 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, Be. fore her wedding, three years ago. she was known throughout Lakeland as the “Maid of the Mountains,” owing to her adventures on the ponv 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 lie the highest in England.