ACROSS LAKELAND - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 21

Leave Ennerdale Bridge along the minor road for Croasdale, turning right
after about 700m to follow a zigzagging road to meet the River Ehen again.
Go left after a car park on the site of a pumping station, and follow a broad
track to the foot of Ennerdale Water. Here, turn right along the southern
shore of the lake.
The sudden impact of Ennerdale's lake as you reach its edge is outstand-
ing, a wonderful and dramatic moment. A good path flirts along its shores,
within stepping distance of the water, and continues uneventfully until its
encounter with the cliffs of Angler's Crag. Energetic souls may opt for a
steeply ascending path, encountered a little before Angler's Crag, cross-
ing the top of the crag, a splendid viewpoint, before descending steeply on
the other side. A more pronounced way takes a lower line, and clambers
through the fractured base of the crag with much less expenditure of en-
ergy.
'ROBIN HOOD'S CHAIR'
A small headland juts out into the lake at this point. This is known as 'Robin Hood's
Chair', a fanciful connection, but of interest to Coast-to-Coasters, linking as it does with
the final destination, and, for that matter, with his alleged grave, encountered on the
crossing of Crosby Ravensworth Fell a few days hence.