Photographs taken on the fells and high ground around Ullswater in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Ullswater Villages and Lake - Pooley Bridge and Dacre - Kirkstone Pass
Tethera, one of three 'Herdwick Stones' on the Ullswater Way between Watermillock and Gowbarrow Fell on the banks of Ullswater in the Lake District Cumbria.
The stones, sculpted by Charlotte Ruse, celebrate the role that shepherding has played in the Lake District. Tethera refers to number 3 in the sheep-counting system traditionally used by shepherds in the north of England.
Pony trekking on Moor Divock near Pooley Bridge in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Loadpot Hill can be seen on the distance.
An aerial view from above Little Mell Fell to Matterdale, Gowbarrow Park and Ullswater in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Aerial view of Great Mell Fell with a backdrop of the Northern Fells of The Lake District.
Great Mell Fell with its sister, Little Mell Fell are two smooth, rectangular shaped hills that rise straight up from a wide expanse of marshy lowland. They are both distinctive and unique in Lakeland because they are composed of the Mell Fell Conglomorate, a sedimentary rock formed from deposits of sand and gravel in alluvial fans and braided river channels.
Aerial view of Matterdale End in Cumbria.
Great Mell Fell rises to the right and the Caldbeck Fells, with the Blencathra and Skiddaw massifs make up the distant range of the Lake District's Northern Fells
The Ice House, Lanty's Tarn, Keldas, Patterdale, Lake District, Cumbria.
The Marshalls of Patterdale Hall bought the neighbouring Lanty's Tarn in the 19th century. They damned the outflow and stocked the tarn with brown trout from Ullswater. In winter, ice from the tarn would have been layered with straw and stored in this underground ice house for use in the summer months.
Lanty’s Tarn (depth to 2m) on Keldas, Patterdale, Lake District, Cumbria.
Lanty’s Tarn was named after Lancelot Dobson who once owned the land. It was bought by the Marshalls of Patterdale Hall in the 19th century. They dammed the outflow and stocked the tarn with brown trout from Ullswater. In winter, ice from the tarn would have been layered with straw and stored in the underground ice house (close to the dam) for use in the summer months.
Lanty’s Tarn (depth to 2m) on Keldas, Patterdale, Lake District, Cumbria.
Lanty’s Tarn was named after Lancelot Dobson who once owned the land. It was bought by the Marshalls of Patterdale Hall in the 19th century. They dammed the outflow and stocked the tarn with brown trout from Ullswater. In winter, ice from the tarn would have been layered with straw and stored in the underground ice house (close to the dam) for use in the summer months.
Keldas, Patterdale in the Lake District, Cumbria.
A view of Ullswater from Scots pine trees on Keldas.
A view of Ullswater from the cairn on Heughscar Hill in the Lake District, Cumbria
Walkers enjoying the view over Ullswater from Heughscar Hill, Pooley Bridge in the Lake District, Cumbria, UK.
A distant view of Ullswater from Red Tarn and Striding Edge on Helvellyn in the Lake District, Cumbria. UK.
A first view of Helvellyn summit from the Wythburn ascent in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Helvellyn trig point at 950m with Striding Edge and a distant view of Ullswater in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Aerial view of dawn skies over Grisedale and Ullswater in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK.
Female walker with dogs on the Ulswater Way, a 20.5 mile footpath around the lake. Lyulph's Tower on Gowbarrow Park can be seen to the left of the photo. Built on the site of a 13th century defensive pele tower, the present building was built in the 1780s by Charles Howard, the 11th Duke of Norfolk, as a hunting lodge. Lyulph was a Viking settler who is said to have given his name to Ulph’s Water which we now know as Ullswater.
Female walker with dogs on the Ullswater Way, a 20.5 mile waymarked walk around the lake in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Female walker with dogs on the Ullswater Way in the Lake District, Cumbria. A southern view down the lake.
Ullswater in the Lake District, Cumbria. Looking towards Hallin Fell on the eastern shores of Ullswater from a rocky plateau on the Ullswater Way, a 20.5 mile walk around the lake.
The giant Sitka Spruce in Gowbarrow Park on the shores of Ullswater in the Lake District, Cumbria. Measuring 6.77 metres, this 170 year old sitka has the largest girth in the country..
National Trust parking charge.
High Force on Aira Beck (above Aira Force) in Gowbarrow Park near Dockray in Cumbria.
National Trust parking charge.
Aira Force, a 20m waterfall in Gowbarrow Park near Dockray in the Lake District.
Originally owned by the Howards of Greystoke Castle who who created gardens and an arboretum. around it.
National Trust parking charge.
Aerial view of Glenridding Dodd in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK.
The remains of Greenside Lead Mine can be seen at the end of Greenside Road.
Greenside Lead Mine C16-C19 at Glenridding in the Lake District.
In 1959 the Atomic Weapons Research Est. in Operation Orpheus, carried out two explosions to see if underground nuclear tests could be detected by seismic instruments.
Greenside Lead Mine C16-C19 at Glenridding in the Lake District.
In 1959 the Atomic Weapons Research Est. in Operation Orpheus, carried out two explosions to see if underground nuclear tests could be detected by seismic instruments.
Aerial view of Ullswater and Dunmallard Hill.
The top of this small hill was the site of an Iron Age hill fort and also the site of one of Thomas West’s Victorian viewing stations of the lakes.
Aerial view of Dockray and Dowthwaitehead in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Photo taken from a hot-air balloon.
An aerial view down Park Brow and over Watermillock Common to Ullswater in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Photo taken from a hot-air balloon.