Devoke Water
Devoke Water is the largest and one of the highest tarns in the Lake District.
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Devoke Water Details
This large tarn lies on Birker Fell, half a mile to the west of the road between Ulpha and Eskdale. It is at an altitude of 770 feet (223m), has a depth of 46 feet, and is almost a mile in length. You can reach it by an easy walk along a bridle track from the fell road. There is a two-storey stone boathouse and a ruined stable. Devoke Water has an outlet in the northwest, via Black Beck, which, after a short distance, plunges over rocks down a 26ft cascade, towards the River Esk. Devoke Water holds stocks of brown trout and perch for the connoisseur angler. One of the chapters of Alfred Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland is a circular walk anticlockwise around Devoke Water, starting and finishing on the road to the east. He describes the summits Rough Crag at 1,049 feet (320 m), Water Crag at 997 feet (304 m), White Pike at 1,370 feet (420 m), Yoadcastle at 1,610 feet (490 m), Woodend Height at 1,597 feet (487 m) and Seat How at 1,020 feet (310 m), and notes that White Pike has a "splendid columnar cairn" and a view to Muncaster Castle." Grid Reference: SD 16211 96994 Address (near): Birker Fell, Ravenglass CA18 1RT, UK
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Eskdale Mill
The central structure of the present-day mill is thought to date from around 1547.
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Burnmoor Stone Circles
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