14km/8.7 miles/4 hours
Ascent 579m/1900ft
It’s wet, wet, wet in the Lakes, as Vivienne Crow discovers
IS IT AN UNDERSTATEMENT to say that water is an important feature of the Lake District? Maybe it’s stating the obvious; after all, the name of England’s largest National Park is the first clue. Then there are the becks, the rivers, the waterfalls… We’ve got a lot of it coming out of the sky too, and keeping the peatlands boggy, and just generally lying about