Enchanting Buttermere to Crummock Water Countryside Walk | LAKE DISTRICT, ENGLAND.

Join me on this wonderful Lake District walk from the shores of the enchanting Buttermere Lake to the tranquillity of Crummock Water in the English Lake District. If you enjoy this video please consider subscribing to the channel    / @walktheworldaway  

Buttermere is a lake in the Cumbrian mountains of the Lake District in England. Its primary outflow is Buttermere Dubs, a short stream which connects the lake to Crummock Water. From there the River Cocker flows to Cockermouth, where it joins the River Derwent and finally enters the Irish Sea at Workington.

It is situated towards the head of the valley of the River Cocker and is surrounded by fells, notably the High Stile range to the south west, Robinson to the north-east, Fleetwith Pike and Haystacks to the south-east and Grasmoor to the north-west.

The village of Buttermere stands at the north-western end of the lake, and beyond this is Crummock Water. There is a path around the lake which is about 7 km long, and at one point runs through a rock tunnel beneath the locality of Hassness. Access is by road, from Cockermouth in the north-west; from Borrowdale via the Honister Pass; or from Braithwaite and the Newlands Valley via Newlands Hause.

There are two possible origins for the name "Buttermere": One, that Buttermere means "the lake by the dairy pastures" (from the Old English "butere mere"). Two, that it is the corrupt form of a personal name. Robert Ferguson asserts in his 1866 work, "The Northmen in Cumberland and Westmoreland" that Buttermere derives from the Old Norse personal name "Buthar", as in "Buthar's mere" (lake). This accords with local tradition, which says that the valley of Buttermere was part of the holdings of an 11th-century Norse chieftain called "Buthar". Large numbers of Vikings settled in the Cumbrian area during the 9th and 10th centuries and many names in the area are of Norse origin: streams are termed 'becks', from the Old Norse bekkr; mountains are 'fells', from the Norse fjall; waterfalls are forces, from fos; ravines are 'gills'; valleys are 'dales', from dalr; and small lakes are termed 'tarns', which derives from tjorn, meaning teardrop.

The hill of Mellbreak runs the full length of Crummock Water on its western side; as Alfred Wainwright described it 'no pairing of hill and lake in Lakeland have a closer partnership than these'. Scale Force is considered the highest waterfall in the English Lake District and it lies on the stream Scale Beck. "The meaning of 'Crummock' seems to be 'Crooked one', from the ancient Celtic word 'crumbaco'. This may refer to the winding course of the River Cocker, which flows out of the lake, or refer to the bending nature of the lake itself.

Filmed on 30.10.2024

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