Ennerdale Water

Insect charity Buglife has called for an inquiry after the death of up to 90% of the freshwater pearl mussels at the Ennerdale Water in Cumbria.

Insect charity Buglife has called for an inquiry after the death of up to 90% of the freshwater pearl mussels at the Ennerdale Water Reservoir in Cumbria.

The valley, he told me, was called Gillerthwaite and the lake Ennerdale Water.

If the evenings were fine, we would sometimes row out upon Ennerdale water, in a crazy battered boat, so that I was more often baling out the leakage in a tin pannikin than pulling at the oars.

Before we had come to the head of Ennerdale Water, the moon was up and shining fitfully through a wrack of clouds.