MORE SUPER-LAKES

REMOTEST

Scoat Tarn on the side of Red Pike in the Lake District, equidistant between Wastwater and Ennerdale, is 597.92m above sea level and at 2.71km from the nearest road, it’s England’s remotest. It makes the centrepiece of a cracking nine-mile circular up Mosedale and down Nether Beck via Wind Gap.

Loch na Gainimh, north of striking Suilven, is Scotland’s remotest – 5.72km from the nearest road as the crow flies but a stunning 10-mile there-and-back from Lochinver.

DEEPEST

Loch Morar in Lochaber is as deep as The Shard is tall, and at 1017ft (310m) it’s 272ft deeper than the second deepest, Loch Ness. A superb 8½-mile walk takes the ferry from Mallaig to Tarbet, crosses the isthmus and heads back along Morar’s shore to Morar station, from where it’s one stop back to Mallaig.

HIGHEST

Llyn Melynllyn, sitting between the 630-640m contours in the Carneddau is Wales’ highest. That’s topped by 718m Red Tarn on Helvellyn (England’s tallest, pictured), but both are trumped by Scotland’s Loch Coire an Lochain on Braeriach in the Cairngorms – at 997m, highest of all, and unusual in having no outflow.

BIGGEST

At 7.45 million cubic metres, Loch Ness contains more water than all English and Welsh lakes combined, and is our biggest by volume. A six-mile out-and-back walk from Grotaig on the north shore to the highest neighbouring peak, 699m Meall Fuar Mhonaidh is a great way work up a thirst (not quite that big!).

Loch Lomond is biggest by area – 27½ square miles of aquatic extravagance. You can get a great sense of its scale by climbing Conic Hill, a mile and a half out of Balmaha. But even Loch Lomond can’t beat slender, sinuous Loch Awe in Argyll & Bute for longest shoreline: a staggering 81 miles. You can’t walk it all, but a waterfall hunt from its shore up the River Avich is great!