Buttermere is one of three lakes that grace this western-lying valley, the same glacier having carved out its near-neighbours, Crummock Water and Loweswater, several thousand...

At 582m high Haystacks offers some fine views of Buttermere, Crummock Water and Ennerdale Water and was one of the famous hiking guide author Wainwright’s...

This dismantled tramway (520m above sea level) once ran from Dubs Quarry to Honister Hause. Today, the slate mine is disused, but the old tramway...

Scale Force lies to the south of Crummock Water, near the village of Buttermere (and close to Keswick). It’s the highest waterfall in the...

This tiny chapel, which stands on the site of an earlier, sixteenth-century building, is one of the Lake District’s smallest churches. It sits on a...