Buttermere
Buttermere is a lake in the Lake District in North West England. It has a length of approximately 2 kilometres and a maximum width of 0.54 kilometres, an area of 0.9 square kilometres, a maximum depth of 28.6 metres, and a surface elevation of 100.3 metres above sea level.Places of Interest
Highlights include High Crag and High Stile.
High Crag
Peak
Photo: Archie424, Public domain.
High Crag stands at the southern end of the High Stile ridge which divides the valleys of Ennerdale and Buttermere in the west of the English Lake District.
High Stile
Peak
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
High Stile is a mountain in the western part of the Lake District in North West England. It is the eleventh-highest English Marilyn, standing 807 metres high, and has a relative height of 362 metres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buttermere and Gatesgarth.
Buttermere
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buttermere is a village of 120 people in Cumbria that takes its name from Buttermere, a lake in the Lake District National Park.
Gatesgarth
Hamlet
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gatesgarth is a settlement in Lake District of England. It is situated to the east of the lake of Buttermere, on the B5289 road on its western approach to the Honister Pass.
Seathwaite
Hamlet
Buttermere
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in the United Kingdom
- Category: body of water
- Location: Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.52992° or 54° 31′ 48″ northLongitude
-3.26555° or 3° 15′ 56″ westElevation
341 feet (104 metres)Open location code
9C6RGPHM+XQOpenStreetMap ID
way 4580534OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
2654156Wikidata ID
Q1018122
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Buttermere” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوتيرمير”
- Basque: “Buttermere”
- Cebuano: “Buttermere (lanaw)”
- Cebuano: “Buttermere”
- Chinese: “巴特米爾湖”
- Dutch: “Buttermere”
- French: “lac Buttermere”
- French: “Lac Buttermere”
- German: “Buttermere”
- Italian: “Buttermere”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buttermere”
- Swedish: “Buttermere”
- Venetian: “Buttermere”
- Welsh: “Buttermere”
- Western Panjabi: “بٹرمیئر”
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Highlights include Burtness Wood and Kirk Close Wood.
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