If you like the road you follow it; if you choose the pass that is yours also; if your fancy (and your wind) is for the mountain tops, then over Great Gable and Scawfell, Robinson and Helvellyn be your way.

Its gables were red-roofed, its walls of graystone half hidden by lofty hedges of cedar.

Great brick gables, often with the stepped outline known as crows' feet, are an excellent architectural feature of these German brick-built towns.