Route outline for walk c203:
Barrow Bay Derwent Water - Ashness Bridge - Surprise View - Watendlath - Bracken Platt - Puddingstone Bank - The Cumbria Way - Rosthwaite - River Derwent - High Hows Wood - Low Hows Wood - Broadslack Gill - Hollows Farm - Borrowdale Gates - Ellers Beck Lodore Falls - Barrow Bay Derwent Water
National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:
Part of this walk follows a section of The Cumbria Way, a 112km (70 miles) linear footpath connecting Ulverston in Cumbria, England with Carlisle in Cumbria, England. The Cumbria Way is waymarked by named posts. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Cumbria Way.
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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk c203 Ashness Bridge, Surprise View, Watendlath, Rosthwaite and The River Derwent from Barrow Bay
In no particular order . . .

Cat Bells (Catbells) from near Barrow Bay on the Eastern shore of Derwent Water

Cat Bells (Catbells) and Derwent Water from Surprise View nr Ashness Bridge

Upper Borrowdale and beyond from the junction of paths by Puddingstone Bank between Great Crag and Grange Fell (Brund Fell)

The Skiddaw massif along with Walla Crag (to the right) from the southern end of Derwent Water

Castle Crag in the 'Jaws' of Borrowdale taken from the north end of Derwent Water
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