Good Beer Guide Pubs with Bad Opening Times and Lost Paths
Cockermouth is one of the few sizeable towns that we were yet to visit in the Lake District. It is right on the far northwestern fringes, just inside the 25K Lake District OS Map.
Home to 3 Good Beer Guide Pubs, a castle, a brewery (as marked on the map), a lengthy high street and a number of famous sons - not least William Wordsworth, who's house we see at the walk outset.
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| Wordsworth House |
The planned walk intrigued me. On my elderly OS Map, it is almost completely on a Long Distance Path marked the "Allendale Ramble". This falls into the rare category of discontinued path. No longer marked on the ground or on the latest OS Maps. It appears as though it was a route devised in the 1970s by a certain Harry Appleyard. A pamphlet followed, which I am sure I could find on eBay.
Our circuit offered plenty of sheep fields - with some newborns - a fortified homestead to repel Scottish Invaders at Isel Hall, some views and some deep woodland. All of this good stuff negated by nasty stiles and a dog that doesn't like to be handled. Moral was lost until the sandwiches were consumed.
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| Over the Derwent on a footbridge at Cockermouth |
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| First newborn lambs is always a pleasant day |
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| The mostly hidden Isel Hall |
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| Never far from an excellent view |
We come back into town, just about talking.
There are plenty of pubs in town but a look at the Good Beer Guide App showed that their three recommendations are 3pm, 3pm and 4pm on a Monday.
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| Always look their most enticing when unavailable |
That's the tourist dollar lost to Cockermouth.
Walk Details
Distance - 8.75 Miles
Geocaches - 3
Walk Inspiration - Jarrold Northwestern Lakes, Walk 17
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