Watendlath Tarn

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

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Watendlath Tarn is a tarn in Cumbria. The surrounding countryside is part of the Lake District National Park.

More places to visit near Watendlath Tarn

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

Remote tarn-side hamlet reached by a single lane and a packhorse bridge, National Trust-owned in a hanging valley above Borrowdale.

here · Cumbria

Wainwright's own invention: St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay through three national parks.

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Perhaps the most photographed packhorse bridge in the Lakes, framing Derwentwater and Skiddaw from the Watendlath lane.

2.7 km NW

Borrowdale waterfall spilling through boulders behind the Lodore hotel, made famous by Robert Southey's tumbling poem.

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A string of pools and small falls on the beck above Stonethwaite, a much-loved wild-swimming spot known as the Fairy Glen.

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