Patterdale

54.536388888889 - 2.9325Koordinaten: 54 ° 32 ' N, 2 ° 56 ' W

Patterdale is the name of a small town in the northern English Lake District National Park and is part of the county of Cumbria. The village has a church, a primary school, a hotel and a hostel. In the valley of the same name and the lake is Ullswater.

The name is derived from Patrick 's Valley and traditions ( "dale " = valley, the variant of the Old Norse dalr is ) speak of the Holy St. Patrick 've worked here. However, it is likely that there was a missionary of the same name at a later time. In 1184 the city was designated as Patrichesdale.

From Patterdale there are connecting roads over the Kirkstone Pass to Ambleside and Windermere places in the south and a road along the Ullswater to Penrith in the north.

Patterdale serves as a starting point for mountain hikes in the westernmost Hellvellyngebiet, with the surrounding mountains Fairfield, St Sunday Crag, Red Screes and Stony Cove Pike or to the eastern mountains Place Fell, High Street, Glenridding Dodd and Kidsty Pike.

For the author, Alfred Wainwright, the location and the Patterdale valley was one of the favorite places in the Lake District, as they were relatively untouched by tourism.

The only other place in the valley of Patterdale is the northerly Glenridding. South of the valley is the Tarn Brothers Water, one of the first places in the Lake District, which were acquired by the National Trust.