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Ullswater is a glacial lake in Cumbria, England and part of the Lake District National Park. It is the second largest lake in the region by both area and volume, after Windermere . The lake is about 7 miles (11 km) long, 0.75 miles (1 km) wide, and has a maximum depth of 63 metres (207 ft).
Glenridding across Ullswater, with one of the steamers leaving the pier Glenridding is a village at the southern end of Ullswater , in the English Lake District . The village is popular with mountain walkers who can scale England's third-highest mountain, Helvellyn , and many other challenging peaks from there.
Kirkstone Pass is a mountain pass in the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria.It is at an altitude of 1,489 feet (454 m).. It is the District's highest pass traversed by road, the A592 road between Ambleside in Rothay Valley and Patterdale in Ullswater Valley.
The top of Glenridding Dodd is a short ridge, with patches of heather, rocky knolls and marshy hollows. [2] The highest point, at the western end, is marked by a small cairn, but better views of Glenridding and almost the whole of Ullswater may be had from the eastern end of the ridge where the ground falls steeply away, [2] just above the 400 m contour.
The Far Eastern Fells refers to all of the Lakeland fells to the east of Ullswater and the A592 road running south to Windermere. At 828 m (2,717 ft), the peak known as High Street is the highest point on a complex ridge that runs broadly north-south and overlooks the hidden valley of Haweswater to its east.
This summit is set back to the north of the fell, about 1.6 km from the shore of Ullswater, limiting views of the lake though the fells beyond it and up the Patterdale valley can be seen. Alfred Wainwright described the summit as "drab". [4] Instead, better views of Ullswater may be had from Green Hill (437 m), the southern summit. [1]
The Ullswater Way is a 20-mile (32 km) waymarked walking route around Ullswater in the English Lake District. [1] It was created by a partnership which included The Lake District National Park Authority, the National Trust, Eden District Council, and Ullswater 'Steamers' and was opened on 25 April 2016 by broadcaster and film-maker Eric Robson.
Helvellyn (/ h ɛ l ˈ v ɛ l ɪ n /; possible meaning: pale yellow moorland) is a mountain in the English Lake District, the highest point of the Helvellyn range, a north–south line of mountains to the north of Ambleside, between the lakes of Thirlmere and Ullswater.