You can find this quotation in John Betjeman's Guide to English Parish Churches (Harper Collins' edition).

"Waberthwaite

St John the Baptist

1m/2kmS.E, of Ravenglass across R. Esk SD 1095

Some 15th century windows, Norman font, pulpit of 1630, and Saxon crosses. There is a beautiful view of Lake mountains and Scafell from the churchyard, which thrusts out into the very sands of the Esk estuary - the strangest, most remote little church."

The church was given the highest star rating as an exceptionally attractive church, or as he put in his introduction, "worth bicycling twelve miles against the wind to see."