The following is an extract from a longer article in the July 10, 1885 issue (page 5) of The Ambleside Lakes Herald newspaper entitled "A Sunrise in Helvellyn" A Sunrise From Helvellyn ... The name of the edge [Striding Edge] is certainly appropriate for one thing and that is that a stride in the wrong direction would in many places on the path prove fatal. That such has been the case the little iron cross among the crags of the edge affirms, for on approaching it we read, "In memory of Robert DIXON, Rookings, Patterdale, who was killed on this place on the 27th November, 1858 while following Patterdale foxhounds." ... In the latter [churchyard at Patterdale] a pleasant hour might have been passed, but merely walking through we only lingered to read the inscription on one of the tombstones, which was rather striking, It was, "In memory of Thomas, eldest son of Robert and Elizabeth GRISDALE, of Hartsop Hall, in this township, who was barbarously murdered by an unprovoked assassin, on the evening of Sunday March 8th, 1835 aged 27 years." David Leverton.