Lake District:
Ravenglass and River Esk - Cumbria Coastal Way & Walls Castle
26 August 2005
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Main Street in Ravenglass
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Turning the other way, a notice board marks the start of our footpath, part of
the Cumbria Coastal Way. The notice warns that the path is submerged at high
tides - it may be impassable for up to 2 hours either side of high tide if the
tide reaches 7.2m or more. However, we are here near low water, and there is no
such problem.
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Looking up at the end of Main Street - a rather unusual end to a road
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Looking across the mud to the meetings point of the rivers Esk, Irt and Mite
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Looking upstream along the Esk, with the dark shape of Black Combe looming over
the scene
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The houses of Main Street back straight onto the estuary
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Fishing boats
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An unexpected hazard of this walk was jelly fish on the path
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Looking across the Esk to the sand-dunes of Eskmeals
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A view back towards Ravenglass
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The tidal path can be seen on the right
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A panoramic photo of the River Esk
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George running through the reeds
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Having come under the railway, a look back to Eskmeals Viaduct
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Returning via the non-tidal alternative inland route of the Cumbria Coastal Way,
we reach Walls Castle, the remains of a Roman bath house. Its walls are the
highest standing Roman remains in Britain.
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The bath house was part of the Roman fort at Ravenglass, known as Glannoventa,
established in about AD 130 on the site of a smaller fortlet built about 10
years earlier.
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A niche which probably once housed a statue.
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The walls retain traces of the original white and red cement rendering.
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As we return to Ravenglass, we cross the railway and look north to the two
Ravenglass stations.
Lake District holiday August 2005
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