Route: Leaving the car at Workington station (free parking) and heading east round by the stream on quiet streets to the edge of the commercial area to pick up Sustrans Route 71 crossing the river on a foot/cycle bridge (2011). Carrying on on an ex-railway line through woods, bending right to avoid Route 72, through Seaton, until the path was parallel to Camberton Road. Here climbing steps on the left then to cross over the path on a new wooden footbridge, cross the road, with views of the fells, and descend a narrow muddy track to the high bank of the river. Here negotiating a very wet and muddy field corner on planks and then continuing on drier ground to reach Seaton Mill and its long weir (complete with heron) just before Barepot. Continuing towards Workington, under the A596, to reach the outward cycle bridge and heading to Carnegie Theatre and Arts Centre for the Workington Beer Festival. Thence back to the start.
Conditions: cloudy but not cold.
Pub: The Workington Rotary Oktoberfest Beer Festival at the Carnegie Theatre for Ennerdale Bridge The Harbour Master and Westgate Atlantic Hop.
