Situated in the north west of England. This heart achingly beautiful and unique area with its stark rawness accentuated by jagged rock faces of the mountains and hills in Cumbria. Strangely enough or confusingly, The English Lake District National Park consists of, not lakes, but Meres or waters and just the one official lake, Bassenthwaite Lake. Just to make it even more interesting we also have Tarns which are small mountain lakes, but many Tarns are larger than some of the lakes! Confused yet?

Some of these larger Tarns consist of the following:

 

• Blea Tarn
• Yew Tree Tarn

• Stickle Tarn

• Little Langdale Tarn
• Overwater Tarn
• Tarn Hows
• Watendlath Tarn

 

The sixteen major lakes, meres, waters (the clue is in the name) by size are:

1. Windermere – 5.71 square miles
2. Ullswater – 3.43 square miles
3. Derwentwater – 2.12 square miles
4. Bassenthwaite Lake – 2.04 square miles
5. Coniston Water – 1.54 square miles
6. Haweswater – 1.5 square miles
7. Thirlmere – 1.27 square miles
8. Ennerdale Water – 1.15 square miles
9. Wastwater – 1.11 square miles
10. Crummock Water – 0.96 square miles
11. Esthwaite Water – 0.38 square miles
12. Buttermere – 0.34 square miles
13. Grasmere – 0.23 square miles
14. Loweswater – 0.23 square miles
15. Rydal Water – 0.11 square miles
16. Brotherswater – 0.07 square miles

Adding to the draw of the Lakelands is the stunning array of mountains and fells in the region, the highest of which is Scafell Pike at 978 metres (3210 feet) to the smallest, Castle Crag at 290 metres (951 feet)

 

The ten highest are:

1. Scafell Pike 978 metres (3210 feet)
2. Scafell at 964 metres (3162 feet)
3. Helvellyn at 950 metres (3114 feet)
4. Skiddaw at 931 metres (3053 feet)
5. Great End at 910 metres (2986 feet)
6. Bowfell at 902 metres (2940 feet)
7. Great Gable at 899 metres (2960 feet)
8. Pillar at 892 metres (2926 feet)
9. Nethermost Pike at 891 metres (2923 feet)
10. Catstycam (2917 feet)

In all there are a total of 214 fell tops, according to the writer Alfred Wainwrights seven-volume ‘Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells’ (1955–66)

Don’t let the title of the wettest part of England put you off either. Such is its beauty I’ve never once felt disappointed to see it raining when travelling there. Just don a waterproof jacket and take to the fells. ‘It’s never the wrong weather, only the wrong clothing’

 

 

 

With a large variety of archaeological sites and monuments. Mountains and fells. Lakes, tarns, waters and meres. The Lake District and its outlying lands are steeped in history. With so much to discover it would fill an entire lifetime and still you would need to come back again and again

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Day 3

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