Patterdale

Patterdale is a small village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is in the eastern part of the Lake District, and the name is also used for the long valley in which the village sits, also called the Ullswater Valley.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brothers Water and Hartsop above How.

Brothers Water

Lake

Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Brothers Water is a small lake in the Hartsop valley, in the eastern region of the Lake District in England. Once called Broader Water, it lies at the northern end of Kirkstone Pass, affording views on the descent towards Patterdale.

Hartsop above How

Peak

Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hartsop above How was in the 19th century the name of a township in the parish of Patterdale. The name is now applied to a fell in the English Lake District, an outlier of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells.

Arnison Crag

Peak

Photo: Freddyj66, Public domain.

Arnison Crag is a fell in the English Lake District, an outlier of the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells. It looks down on Patterdale village and the upper reach of Ullswater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenridding and Hartsop.

Glenridding

Photo: Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Glenridding is a village at the southern end of Ullswater, in the English Lake District. The village is popular with mountain walkers who can scale England's third-highest mountain, Helvellyn, and many other challenging peaks from there.

Hartsop

Hamlet

Photo: Ericoides, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hartsop is a small village in the English Lake District. It lies in the Patterdale valley, near Brothers Water, Hayeswater and Kirkstone Pass. It consists of 17th-century grey stone cottages, like so many of its neighbours.

Patterdale

Type: Locality
Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.5144° or 54° 30′ 52″ north

Longitude

-2.9446° or 2° 56′ 41″ west

Elevation

833 feet (254 metres)

Open location code

9C6VG374+P5

GeoNames ID

7294786

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