Bassenthwaite Lake

The Bassenthwaite Lake is the third largest lake in England and is located in the Lake District in Cumbria. He is the only lake in the Lake District is named the lake (lake); all other lakes have the ending- mers or water. On some maps from the 18th century, the lake is, however, written with Basswater.

The lake is located northeast of the town of Keswick, at the foot of the 931 m high mountain Skiddaw. It is about 6 km long and 600 to 1000 meters wide, the lake level is at 69 meters above sea level. The area of ​​the lake is 5.2 km ², its catchment area but nearly 240 km ², larger than any other lake in the Lake District.

Like the other lakes in the Lake District is also of Bassenthwaite Lake in a created during the Weichselian glacial valley. Main inflow and outflow is the Derwent, which is also by the five kilometers south Derwent Water flows. It is believed that Bassenthwaite Lake and Derwent Water earlier formed a single lake; Since then, however, sediment has deposited between them and forms the basis for a fertile alluvial plain. The lake has trout, pike, perch, eel-shaped and Coregonus albula. Are hunted these fish by cormorants and gray herons some.