Ronald Turnbull finds a watery new way to a Lake District favourite
LL PATHS from Glenridding lead up to Helvellyn. But so does the boat from Glenridding pier! Take the short hop to Aira Force for a way up Helvellyn that offers so much more. First, it’s the waterfall itself. Aira Force tumbles 70 feet from below an old stone footbridge and sits in a designed landscape with over 200 specimen conifers – including a Sitka spruce now 118 feet
