3 Pooley Bridge ROUTES FROM

Lakeland should be about lakes. Ronald Turnbull takes the ferryboat along the loveliest of them all.

Jolly boating weather is any weather there is. Dim grey slopes rising into black mist, and white breakers hissing by: this is fun on the voyage, and also for the shoreline path, which is the first walk here. On a better day, the ferry sets you up for Striding Edge and a long, long day along the Dodds. Then again, the mid-level path can be the top form of fun: take in the knobby summits of Sheffield Pike and Gowbarrow, and teeter around the steep head of Glencoynedale. What unites all three routes is Ullswater: seven and a half miles of wiggly water, and green woodlands, and high stony slopes – seen from alongside, from above, and also from aboard Lady Dorothy. TRANSPORT Ullswater Steamers Pooley Bridge to Howtown and Glenridding, first…

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Trail United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2016

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