Bassenthwaite Lake
Bassenthwaite Lake is a body of water in the Lake District in North West England, near the town of Keswick. It has an area of 5.3 km2, making the fourth largest of the lakes in the region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mirehouse and Barf.
Mirehouse
Photo: Ian Cunliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mirehouse is a 17th-century house to the north of Keswick in Cumbria, at the foot of Dodd, near Bassenthwaite Lake and St Bega's Church, on the A591 road.
Barf
Peak
Barf is a fell in the north-western Lake District in Cumbria, UK. It stands on the south-western shore of Bassenthwaite Lake. Barf is well known for a whitewashed pillar of rock on the lower slopes, the so-called "Bishop's Rock" or "Bishop of Barf".
Sale Fell
Peak
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sale Fell is a small hill near Cockermouth in the English Lake District. It is popular with locals, as it offers gentle walking and lovely views across Bassenthwaite Lake to Skiddaw.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Crosthwaite and Routenbeck.
Little Crosthwaite
Hamlet
Photo: Ian Cunliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Crosthwaite is a hamlet in the Cumberland district in the English county of Cumbria. It forms part of the civil parish of Underskiddaw. Little Crosthwaite is located on the A591 road on the eastern shore of the Bassenthwaite Lake between Keswick and Bassenthwaite.
Routenbeck
Locality
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Routenbeck is a hamlet in Cumbria, England. It is located at the northern foot of Sale Fell, near the north-west edge of Bassenthwaite Lake. Routenbeck is just over 2 miles south-west of the village of Bassenthwaite and 5 miles east of the town of Cockermouth. Routenbeck is situated 1½ miles northwest of Bassenthwaite Lake.
Dubwath
Hamlet
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Dubwath is a hamlet in the Cumberland district, in Cumbria, England. It is part of the parish of Setmurthy. The population of this civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 148. Dubwath is situated 2 miles northwest of Bassenthwaite Lake.
Bassenthwaite Lake
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Cumbria, England, UK
- Category: body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Bassenthwaite Lake” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bassenthwaite aintzira”
- Cebuano: “Bassenthwaite Lake”
- Chinese: “巴森斯韋特湖”
- Dutch: “Bassenthwaite Lake”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره باسينثوايت”
- French: “lac Bassenthwaite”
- French: “Lac Bassenthwaite”
- German: “Bassenthwaite Lake”
- Italian: “Bassenthwaite Lake”
- Italian: “Lago di Bassenthwaite”
- Japanese: “バセンスウェイト湖”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bassenthwaite Lake”
- Polish: “Bassenthwaite”
- Russian: “Бассентуэйт”
- Swedish: “Bassenthwaite Lake”
- Ukrainian: “Бассентвейт (озеро)”
- Ukrainian: “Бассентвейт”
- Venetian: “lago de Bassenthwaite”
- Welsh: “Llyn Bassenthwaite”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل بستھوائٹ”
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