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Devoke Water is a small lake in the mid-west region of the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria. It is the largest tarn in the Lake District.〔http://www.magazine.ordnancesurveyleisure.co.uk/magazine/tscontent/editorials/walking/2011/lake-district-tarns.html〕 It lies on Birker Fell, 1 km to the west of the road between Ulpha and Eskdale, at an altitude of 770 feet (223 m). It has a depth of . It can be reached via a bridle track. There is a two-storey stone boathouse-cum-refuge and a ruined stable. thumbDevoke Water has an outlet in the north west, via Black Beck, which, after a short distance, plunges over rocks down a cascade, towards the River Esk. The fishing rights to Devoke Water are owned by Millom Anglers and it is stocked with brown trout. It also holds perch. ==The Circuit of Devoke Water== One of the chapters of Alfred Wainwright's ''The Outlying Fells of Lakeland'' is a circular walk anticlockwise around Devoke Water, starting and finishing on the road to the east. He describes the summits Rough Crag at , Water Crag at , White Pike at , Yoadcastle at , Woodend Height at and Seat How at , and notes that White Pike has a "splendid columnar cairn" and a view to Muncaster Castle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Devoke Water」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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