- Patterdale
Patterdale is the name of a small village in the eastern part of the English
Lake District , and is also the name given to the long valley in which it sits although called theUllswater Valley.The village is the start point for a number of popular hill-walks, most notably the
Striding Edge path up toHelvellyn . Other fells that can be reached from the Valley includePlace Fell , High Street,Glenridding Dodd , most of the peaks in theHelvellyn range , Fairfield andSt Sunday Crag , andRed Screes andStony Cove Pike at the very end of the valley, standing either side of the Kirkstone Pass which is the road toAmbleside .Further up the valley to the north is the lake of
Ullswater withGowbarrow Fell andHallin Fell overlooking it. The only tarn in the valley isBrothers Water , one of the first places in the Lakes to be acquired by the National Trust. The only other village in the valley isGlenridding . Patterdale village has a youth hostel, a church, a primary school and a hotel. In summer it can get quite busy, but not so much as Glenridding. Patterdale is considered to be a walkers' valley, and in factAlfred Wainwright stated that it was his favourite valley in the Lake District as it is relatively undisturbed by tourism.Local government
The
civil parish of Patterdale also includes the villages of Glenridding and Hartsop and as well as the southern end of Ullswater it also includes the smaller lake ofBrotherswater .From 1894 to 1934 the parish was part of the
West Ward Rural District then was transferred to the newly created Lakes Urban District finally becoming part of Eden District in 1974 under theLocal Government Act 1972 .At one time the parish was an outlying part of the parish of Barton, Barton being about 10 miles from Patterdale.
ee also
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Patterdale Terrier
* Patterdale Mountain Rescue TeamExternal links
* [http://www.patterdale.org/ Village website]
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