Lakes & lochs in CumbriaCumbria, England

Set between Great and Little Langdale, its reeds and pines frame a celebrated view of the Langdale Pikes.

A quiet Lakeland water ringed by high fells, its shoreline circuit among the loveliest short walks in Cumbria.

Where Donald Campbell died chasing the water speed record, and the lake Arthur Ransome remade as Swallows and Amazons country.

Fed by the falls of Scale Force, this Buttermere-valley lake is ringed by Mellbreak and the high western fells.

Keswick's lake, ringed by fells and dotted with islands, with the jaws of Borrowdale opening to the south.

Wordsworth's lake and village, where the poet lies in the churchyard and Dove Cottage stands close by the shore.

Between Grasmere and Ambleside, this small lake sits close to Rydal Mount, where Wordsworth spent his later years.

A much-loved beauty spot near Coniston, an artificial tarn among wooded knolls with the Coniston fells rising beyond.

The second largest lake in the Lake District, a curving water in Patterdale where Wordsworth saw the daffodils of his most famous poem.

England's deepest lake, backed by the Screes and the country's highest ground, once voted the nation's favourite view.

England's longest lake, a ribbon of water threaded with steamers and wooded islands between Ambleside and Newby Bridge.

The most secluded of the western Lakeland lakes, roadless along its shores below Pillar and the Ennerdale forests.

Alone among the Cumbrian waters in being called a lake by name, a shallow sheet under Skiddaw where ospreys returned to breed.

The smallest of the Langdale lakes, its reedy bays giving views to the Langdale Pikes above Elterwater village.

High beneath Great End near Sty Head, it is reputed to lie among the wettest spots in England.

Dammed and raised to supply Manchester, its forested shores run beneath the long ridge of Helvellyn.

England's last golden eagle held on at this remote eastern Lakeland reservoir, which drowned the village of Mardale for Manchester.

Unusually, this small north-western fell lake drains inland toward the other lakes rather than the sea.

Below Kirkstone Pass at the head of Patterdale, its name recalls two brothers said to have drowned there.

The Lake District's largest tarn, lying alone on the bleak moorland above Eskdale beneath Birker Fell.

Near Hawkshead and Beatrix Potter's Hill Top, this gentle lake is thick with reeds and birdlife.

Cupped beneath Dow Crag on the Old Man of Coniston, this dark tarn is a long-standing favourite of rock climbers.

Alfred Wainwright asked for his ashes to be scattered at this small tarn on the top of Haystacks.

Wordsworth likened this small tarn below Loughrigg Fell to Diana's mirror, with the Langdale Pikes framed beyond.

Between Striding Edge and Swirral Edge beneath Helvellyn, this is among the highest sizeable waters in England.

Dammed below the cliff of Pavey Ark above Great Langdale, reached by the path beside Stickle Ghyll.

Beside the hamlet of Watendlath above Borrowdale, this tarn is the fictional home of Hugh Walpole's Judith Paris.