Loweswater

Loweswater is one of the smaller lakes in the northern English Lake District National Park. It is 1.2 km long and 550 m wide, with a maximum depth of 16 m.

Description

The lake is located on the western edge of the Lake District about 12 km east of the coastal town of Whitehaven and 10 km south of Cockermouth and is owned by the National Trust.

To the south of the lake lie the Loweswater Fells mentioned mountains with Mellbreak, Gavel Fell, Blake Fell, Hen Comb and Burnbank Fell; in the north are fur Barrow and Low Fell.

The name is derived from Old Norse leafy run = / Wooded and saer = lake, as well as the English word " water", with the many lakes in the Lake District are known to make it clear that there is a lake, because many ancestral name had become incomprehensible.

Unusually at Loweswater is that its outflow Dub Beck is directed not like all the other lakes in the area of the Lake District out, but the center. In Church Bridge, the name changes to Park Beck and reached Crummock Water just south of the River Cocker outflow at the northern end of the lake.

Loweswater is rather on the edge of the busy tourist areas, which is not least due to the little spectacular surroundings with only lower hills, in contrast to the mountainous and thus " more attractive " areas of the neighboring lakes Buttermere and Crummock Water.