 AIRA FORCE
A cache by THE SMILEYS Hidden: 7/21/2004
Size:  (Regular) Difficulty:  Terrain: (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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Short steepish walk
There is free parking for access above the falls at N54 34.558 -
W002 56.004. The main force falls 70 feet from below a stone
footbridge. Aira Force provides a glimpse of a landscaped Victorian
park with dramatic waterfalls, arboretum and rocks scenery. In the
1780's the Howard family of Greystoke Castle had an old hunting
lodge or Pele tower close to the Ullswater shore renovated into
what is now Lyulph's Tower, set among its own sporting estate. They
landscaped the area around the force, and used it as a pleasure
garden, planting over half a million native and ornamental trees,
and established a network of tracks, footpaths and bridges. In 1846
the Howards created an arboretum below Aira Force, planting over
200 specimen conifers (firs, pines, spruces and cedars) from all
over the world, including a Sitka Spruce 118 feet high. After a
walk along this part of Ullswater, Wordsworth wrote the famous
'Daffodils'.Cache contains: Tattoo, reflectors, joke, clowns,
animal marker, mood head, tape, tweety pen, mini torch and green
neon eraser.
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