visit buttermere, loweswater & crummock water...
The Buttermere Valley is a picture postcard of blue ribbon lakes (Buttermere, Crummock Water and Loweswater) ‘knotted' together at the small villages of Buttermere and Loweswater, like ‘a string of pearls each connected to the next'.
Between these lakes, flat verdant fields radiate outwards until contained by the encircling buttresses of Red Pike, High Stile, Fleetwith Pike, Robinson, Whiteless Pike, Grasmoor and Melbreak.
explore buttermere
History & heritage
The natural landscape around Buttermere is the result of glacial action, which led to early settlers colonising land near the lakes.
history
heritage
Activities
There are a wide variety of different activities you can do in and around Buttermere, from via feratta to fishing.
Natural environment
Buttermere's natural environment dominates - whether it is the impressive mountainous heights or the deep calm of the lakes.
natural environment
What's on
Whilst staying in the Buttermere Valley why not check out local events and find out what's on in the surrounding area.
quirky facts about buttermere...
The Beauty of Buttermere
Mary Robinson, daughter of the innkeeper at the Fish Inn (now the Fish Hotel), was so famed for her beauty that people came from far and wide to capture her beauty on canvas and in verse.
At the age of 18, she caught the eye of the Honourable Alexander Augustus Hope, MP for Linlithgow, who was staying at the inn and, after a brief courtship, they were married at Lorton in 1802. But, on return from their honeymoon, Hope was exposed as John Hatfield, a notorious swindler and bigamist. Hatfield was arrested and stood trial at Carlisle where he was found guilty, not of bigamy, but for posing as a Member of Parliament for which he was subsequently hanged in 1803. Mary went on to marry farmer Richard Harrison, by whom she had several children. She died in 1834 and is buried in Caldbeck churchyard.
