'Watendlath'

altitude 863 ft, tarn depth 56 ft.

Location : Grange Village / Keswick
Map - Ordnance Survey - NY 274163

The little hamlet of Watendlath, owned by the National Trust, sits high between the Borrowdale and Thirlmere valleys. It is 847 feet above sea level, with an attractive tarn surrounded by fells in a classic 'hanging valley'.

Watendlath beck is the source for Lodore Falls - a tourist attraction from Victorian times.

Watendlath has an attractive packhorse bridge, and a National Trust tea-room. The hamlet is reached by a very narrow road with passing places, from the Keswick to Borrowdale road.

The packhorse bridge. Photo by Ann Bowker

from Great Crag. Photo by Ann Bowker

From High Tove. Photo by Ann Bowker

Surpise View. Photo by Ann Bowker

On the road up from the lake are two famous viewpoints - Ashness Bridge, and Surprise View.

Watendlath was used by Sir Hugh Walpole as a setting for the fictional home of Judith Paris in his haunting Herries saga, a series of four novels published in the early 1930's.

Information is available at the National Trust shop at Lakeside, Derwentwater.