Ennerdale Water
Ennerdale Water is the most westerly lake in the northern English Lake District National Park. He is 600-1500 meters wide, four kilometers long and 45 meters deep. The water level was raised to serve with the increased storage capacity as a water reservoir for the ten kilometers to the port town of White Haven can by building a dam completion.
Geography
The lake is located in the homonymous valley, which was formed during the last ice age as the other lakes in the Lake District by glaciers and is surrounded to the north, east and south of some of the highest and most famous mountains of the region: Great Gable, High Stile, Steeple and Pillar.
At the western end of the lake, the village of Ennerdale Bridge is located. With a small merchant shop, two pubs and some houses it is typical for this area of Cumbria. Once a year the Ennerdale show takes place in a week of August here, an agricultural show with livestock, arts and crafts market.
Tourism and Ecology
Ennerdale Water is a popular destination for hikers and mountain bikers. However, it is not as touristy developed and marketed like other places in the region. The landscape around the lake is still more original than in the tourism centers of the Lake District. For example, the path along the south side of Ennerdale Water on a climbing section at Angler's Crag and does not lend itself to leisurely walks. There is also no public road that leads into the valley.
Two hostels offer hikers accommodation: youth hostel Ennerdale east of the upper end of Ennerdale Water and the small Black Sail Hut at the top of the whole valley.
, " To the development Ennerdales to enable the Forestry Commission, the National Trust and United Utilities plc as owner of the lake and the valley have joined forces to Wild Ennerdale Partnership 2003 as natural state valley, for the benefit of persons who are on a natural process leave for change of landscape and ecology ". As a result, Ennerdale is generally regarded as one of the valleys that have not yet received their original character or recover, although it was precisely the forest department, which provided around 1930 with a large-scale reforestation action displeasure. In Ennerdale the largest contiguous timber of the Lake District is operated, consisting of atypical for this region spruce monoculture.
In the region around Ennerdale Water can be found around the smallest bird in Europe, the Goldcrest. There is here a typical example of glacial relict fauna from the order of floating shrimp, the Reliktkrebschen ( Mysis relicta ), which occurs only in extremely clean and unpolluted water and is mainly used in deep clear-water lakes in Scandinavia and North America.