Loughrigg Tarn

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

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Loughrigg Tarn is a tarn in Cumbria. The surrounding countryside is part of the Lake District National Park. Windermere Station is 9 km away to the south-east. For more of the same, Elter Water and Rydal Water are close by.

More places to visit near Loughrigg Tarn

England's highest mountains and deepest lakes — the fells that invented British hillwalking.

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

1 km W

A short, powerful fall where the combined Brathay and Langdale Beck force through the rocks at Skelwith Bridge.

1 km S

A quarry mouth above Rydal Water big enough to swallow a house, its floor pool crossed on stepping stones — the void left by Loughrigg's slate men.

1.7 km NE

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

2.1 km NE

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

2.2 km N