Patterdale

Patterdale
240px The Patterdale valley seen from Hartsop Dodd
Patterdale  Patterdale shown within Cumbria
Population	501 (2011)
OS grid reference	NY3915
Civil parish	Patterdale
District	Eden
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PENRITH
Postcode district	CA11
Dialling code	017684
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Penrith and The Border
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Patterdale (Saint Patrick's Dale) is a small village and civil parish in the eastern part of the English Lake District in the Eden District of Cumbria, in the traditional county of Westmorland, and the long valley in which they are found, also called the Ullswater Valley.

The village is the start point for a number of popular hill-walks, most notably the Striding Edge path up to Helvellyn. Other fells that can be reached from the Valley include Place Fell, High Street, Glenridding Dodd, most of the peaks in the Helvellyn range, Fairfield and St Sunday Crag, and Red Screes and Stony Cove Pike at the very end of the valley, standing either side of the Kirkstone Pass which is the road to Ambleside.

Further up the valley to the north is the lake of Ullswater with Gowbarrow Fell and Hallin Fell overlooking it. The only tarn in the valley is Brothers Water, one of the first places in the Lakes to be acquired by the National Trust. The only other village in the valley is Glenridding. Patterdale village has a youth hostel, a church, a primary school and a hotel. In summer it can get quite busy, but not so much as Glenridding. Patterdale is considered to be a walkers' valley, and in fact Alfred Wainwright stated that it was his favourite valley in the Lake District as it is relatively undisturbed by tourism.

Local government

The civil parish of Patterdale also includes the villages of Glenridding and Hartsop. As well as the southern end of Ullswater, it also includes the smaller lake of Brothers Water.

From 1894 to 1934, the parish was part of the West Ward Rural District, then was transferred to the newly created Lakes Urban District, finally becoming part of Eden District in 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972.

The parish was once an outlying part of Barton, which is about 10 miles (16 km) from Patterdale.

See also

• Patterdale Terrier
• Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team

External links

• Video and commentary on St Patrick's Holy Well
• Patterdale TODAY - village website - what's happening in Hartsop, Deepdale, Patterdale and Glenridding
• Village website
• Patterdale C of E Primary School website
• Patterdale Parish Boundary Walk
• Patterdale Village Store and Post Office
• Patterdale Dog Day Annual Sheep Dog Trials
• Patterdale Hall Adventure Learning Centre
• Patterdale War Memorial Information
• Map sources for Patterdale