Lonely Planet Pocket Lake District by Lonely Planet

Author:Lonely Planet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Published: 2019-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Honister Pass

From Borrowdale, a narrow, perilously steep road snakes up the fellside to Honister Pass, home to the last working slate mine in the UK. Though you can still pick up slate souvenirs in the on-site shop, these days the Honister Slate Mine has diversified with a range of adventure activities, ranging from subterranean tours to thrilling via ferrata walks.

Buttermere

Stretching 1.5 miles northwest of Honister Pass, the deep bowl of Buttermere was gouged out by a steamroller glacier, and is backed by a string of impressive peaks and emerald-green hills. The valley’s twin lakes, Buttermere and Crummock Water, were once joined but became separated by glacial silt and rockfall.

The little village of Buttermere sits halfway between the two and provides a wonderfully cosy base for exploring the rest of the valley and the many nearby fells, including Haystacks (597m), the favourite mountain and the last resting place of the patron saint of Lakeland walkers, the author Alfred Wainwright.

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