Buttermere
Buttermere is a lake in the Lake District in North West England.
Buttermere is a lake in the Lake District in North West England. It has an area of 0.9 square kilometres (0.35 sq mi), a length of approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi), a maximum width of 0.54 kilometres (0.34 mi), a maximum depth of 28.6 metres (94 ft), and a surface elevation of 100.3 metres (329 ft) above sea level. Its primary outflow is Buttermere Dubs, a short stream which connects the lake to Crummock Water. From Crummock Water the River Cocker flows to Cockermouth, where it joins the River Derwent and finally enters the Irish Sea at Workington. The lake is in the unitary authority of Cumberland, and the ceremonial county of Cumbria.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Moss Force
There are two paths from the Hause to the foot of both the upper and middle cascades, although a little scrambling over rock is required to reach the foot of the upper falls.
- 02Scale Force
Highest waterfall in the Lake District, usually stated as 170 ft (52 m) high.
From Wikivoyage: Buttermere, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Piller
At 2,927 ft (892 m) it is the eighth-highest mountain in the Lake District.
From Wikivoyage: Buttermere, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Buttermere
- Airports
- Isle of Man (IOM), 101 km · Newcastle (NCL), 116 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 128 km
- Castletown → Buttermere103 km · quickest by road, 7h 30m · $21–29
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Buttermere117 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £14–19
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Buttermere140 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £21–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Buttermere
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Buttermere. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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- 02201 km
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