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Buttermere

Buttermere is a village of 120 people in that takes its name from Buttermere, a lake in the .
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  • Type: Village with 92 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Buttermere, Cumbria”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Buttermere and Moss Force.

Lake
is a in the in . 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.

Waterfall
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a waterfall situated within the Lake District National Park in the county of . It is located 10 km SW of the town of at Newlands Hause, the pass between the Newlands Valley and the Valley.

Peak
Photo: Archie424, Public domain.
is a fell in the of , . Rising from the valley, it is one of the smaller Cumbrian hills and is overlooked by a number of surrounding fells, such as , and, across , and the ridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gatesgarth.

Hamlet
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a settlement in of England. It is situated to the east of the lake of , on the B5289 road on its western approach to the .

Buttermere

Latitude
54.5409° or 54° 32′ 27″ north
Longitude
-3.2762° or 3° 16′ 35″ west
Population
92
Elevation
341 feet (104 metres)
Open location code
9C6RGPRF+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29461055
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2654154
Wiki­data ID
Q1018118
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Satellite Map

Discover Buttermere from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Buttermere” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Buttermere”
  • Chinese: “Buttermere”
  • Dutch: “Buttermere”
  • French: “Buttermere”
  • German: “Buttermere”
  • Irish: “Buttermere”
  • Italian: “Buttermere”
  • Ladin: “Buttermere”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Buttermere (Cumbria)”
  • Persian: “باترمیر، کامبریا”
  • Polish: “Buttermere (Kumbria)”
  • Polish: “Buttermere”
  • Swedish: “Buttermere, Cumbria”
  • Swedish: “Buttermere”
  • Turkish: “Buttermere, Cumbria (village)”
  • Turkish: “Buttermere, Cumbria”
  • Welsh: “Buttermere, Cumbria”
  • Welsh: “Buttermere”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Buttermere”. Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.