Carlisle & District Rambling & Fellwalking Club

Walk & Event Reports

Sunday 31st March 2019

C Walk

Ennerdale Water

Leader: Gill Thompson

Report by Gill Thompson

Photos by Kevan Wearing,Joe Birney & Gill Thompson

Nine of us set off from Ennerdale Bridge in glorious sunshine, unexpectedly warm after the weather forecast, so we were all stripping off the layers before long. The views of the central fells, Pillar and Steeple were excellent as we walked along the lakeside towards Bowness point. The clouds were beginning to gather by the time we had finished lunch, and it got somewhat cooler, but that was offset by the climb up to How Hill, where we viewed the stone plaque in the wall of the house which read ;-

"This house was built in AD 1566 by Anthony Patrickson and Frances his wife, dau of Sir Thomas Swinburne one of the privy council of King Henry VIII"  Interesting! On another wall there is a modern plaque to a poet who nobody in our party had heard of,I'm afraid.

The walk ended  with a welcome visit to the café in Ennerdale Bridge.

Gill