The Cumbria Way is unsurpassed in the rewards it offers discerning walker. It begins quietly enough in Ulverston, the sea is virtually on its doorstep and from the swelling uplands on its outskirts there are breathtaking all-round views. The vast expanse of Morecame Bat lies to the south. Westwards is the Duddon estuary and the Pennines spread along the distant, eastern horizon. Coniston Old Man and its attendent fells soon loom large to the north, a a stunning background to the long, lovely reach of Coniston Water.

From Coniston' eastern shore Grizedale Forest extends to Windermere. It provides an arboreal wonderland, embroided with nature trails. Each misty autumn the forest explodes in a riot of glorious russet, lemon and red.

Coniston village sits darkly beneath the Coniston Fells that rise steeply almost from the back doors of the houses, the rugged Yewdale Crags prominent among them.

Great Langdale, with Windermere's head in its mouth, is one of the most spectacular of the Lakeland Dales. Lingmoor Fell seperates it form Little Langdale and both meet at Elterwater, overlooked by the twin towers of Pike of Stickle and Harrison Stickle.

North of the Langdales, Sergeant Man,

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