Visit Patterdale Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Patterdale

  

Patterdale Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Patterdale

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Patterdale geography / climate

The A592 road, Windermere to Penrith, crosses the southern boundary of the parish at the col of the Kirkstone Pass. It covers 7.2 road miles (11.6 km) and 6.7 miles (10.8 km) as the crow flies.

You can visit Patterdale places with Walkfo Patterdale to hear history at Patterdale’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Patterdale has 19 places to visit in our interactive Patterdale map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Patterdale, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Patterdale places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Patterdale & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 19 audio facts unique to Patterdale places in an interactive Patterdale map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Patterdale Places Map
19 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Patterdale historic spots	Patterdale tourist destinations	Patterdale plaques	Patterdale geographic features
Walkfo Patterdale tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Patterdale

  

Best Patterdale places to visit

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Patterdale has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Patterdale’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Patterdale’s information audio spots:

Glenridding House Glenridding House was constructed between 1807 and 1814. It was a private summer villa until about 1860 and then became a guest house. The building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II listed building.

Sheffield Pike Sheffield Pike (possibly meaning “the peak above the sheep fold”) is a prominent intermediate top on one of the eastern ridges of Stybarrow Dodd. It separates and stands high above the Glencoyne and Glenridding valleys.

Place Fell Place Fell is a hill in the English Lake District. It stands at the corner of the upper and middle reaches of Ullswater, with steep western flanks overlooking the villages of Glenridding and Patterdale.

Birkhouse Moor Birkhouse Moor is a fell in the English Lake District, an outlier of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells. It was treated as a separate fell by Alfred Wainwright in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.

Birks (Lake District) Birks is a fell in the English Lake District situated two kilometres south west of the village of Patterdale in the Eastern Fells. The fell’s summit sits on a shoulder of the north east ridge of the higher and better known fell of St Sunday Crag.

St Sunday Crag St Sunday Crag is part of the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells. It is a prominent feature in the Patterdale skyline, with a rounded shape.

The Nab The Nab has a moderate height of 576 metres (1,888 feet) It lies in the quieter eastern high ground between Ullswater and Haweswater Reservoir. The Nab is included in Alfred Wainwright’s list of Lakeland fells.

Hartsop above How Hartsop above How is a fell in the English Lake District. It is an outlier of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells. It stands above Brothers Water and the Ullswater–Ambleside road.

Brock Crags Brock Crags is a fell in the English Lake District, standing above Hartsop in the Far Eastern Fells. It forms part of the perimeter of Martindale, lying on the long ridge from Rampsgill Head to Place Fell.

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