Stay nearby at Loweswater Scale Force bothy - visit our website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/camping Already been round the lake? An alternative walk from the village is to Scale Force (Lakeland’s tallest waterfall at over 50m) which nestles deep in a rocky To Cockermouth for To Scale Force National Trust Car Park Wordsworth House cleft above Crummock Water. Scale is also the site of one of three hamlets in the valley abandoned in the 14th century (Scale = sheiling or settlement).
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To Keswick via The lonely pines, Sourmilk Gill Newlands Pass the cloud-capped pikes. Permissive path Buttermere is a place for reflection. Steep path to closed April-June for Bleaberry Tarn nesting Sandpipers and Red Pike A walk around the lake is a walk around the still, silver heart of the northwestern fells. A good Buttermere 7km/4½ miles, retreat when the gales are on the tops, and a More accessible allow 3hrs for people with photographer’s paradise on still days. limited mobility
Sourmilk Gill and Haystacks Tunnel After the rain, Sourmilk Gill creams down in a We’ve removed breathless 300m white cascade from Bleaberry Spruce and replanted with native saplings Tarn. The pink granite boulders at its foot are in Burtness wood ripped down from the iron-ore rich flan s of Red Pike when it’s in spate. Three Great Views At the eastern end of the lake, the distinctive Walk on road for 600m black rocky humps that give Haystacks its name – just one ticket Steep path to create an impressive amphitheatre. Wainwright’s Scarth Gap ‘favourite fell’, it’s part of what makes the and Haystacks Gatesgarth Buy a day ticket and it is transferable to all three lakeshore walk so dramatic. National Trust car parks in the Buttermere Valley (Honister Pass, Buttermere Village, and Lanthwaite To Keswick via ‘Lovely relaxing walk and saw a red Honister Pass Woods) or join us today and support our conservation squirrel too - a bonus!’ work. We care for two of the farms in the hamlet, Buttermere lake, Crummock Water, Loweswater and Jen and Bob, Newcastle roughly half the fells in the valley.
buttermere.indd 2 11/06/2019 Get the most from your walk Staying Safe in the Mountains A lakeshore amble Sandpipers nest along the lakeshore, so to protect Be prepared their vulnerable nests we close a short stretch of around Buttermere permissive path between April and June each year. Check the weather forecast, take a good map and You can still walk around the lake. If it’s bird-nesting a compass and know how to use them, bring spare time, planning your route in advance will help you clothing, a snack and a drink, and don’t rely on avoid unnecessary diversions. having mobile phone signal.
Did we mention there’s a tunnel? If you’re walking Look after the Lakes you love with children, we recommend doing the walk anticlockwise. That way you get den-building in Rangers and volunteers care for 8,000 acres the woods on the way out, and a short tunnel (cut (1 acre = a football pitch) in the Buttermere valley through a crag by the Victorians) to keep them alone. We care for nearly a quarter of the Lake motivated on the way back. District, looking after the places that you love.
How to get to Buttermere: Joining the National Trust today will directly Thirty minutes from Keswick on the support our work to look after the North Lakes Borrowdale Road (B5289) via Honister Pass. landscape Thirty minutes from Cockermouth on the Lorton Road (B5292) Where next? Sat Nav: CA13 9UZ Wordsworth House and Garden where you can see, hear, touch and taste the 18th century. When you join, donate, visit or volunteer, your support helps us to look after special places, for ever, for everyone. If you require this information in alternative formats please contact us Buttermere @NTNorthLakes © National Trust 2014 This leaflet is printed on The National Trust is a registered charity, no 205846 recycled paper. Please Photography © National Trust Images www.nationaltrust.org.uk/buttermere Design by chemicaldesign.co.uk recycle this leaflet after use.
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