List of lakes of the Lake District
This list contains the lakes, tarns and reservoirs in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England.
Only one body of water, Bassenthwaite Lake, is traditionally named a lake.[1] Larger bodies of water in the Lake District are generally named as mere or water, whilst smaller ones are denoted by tarn. Some writers, particularly in the media, refer to Lake Windermere though this use is deprecated.
Physical characteristics of the main lakes[]
This table gives details of those bodies of water with a surface area of at least 0.1 km².
Name | Length (km)[2] | Max. width (km)[2] | Area (km²)[2] | Volume (m³ x 106)[3] | Mean depth (m)[2] | Max. depth (m)[2] | Surface elev. (m) | Retention time (days)[2][4] | Trophic state index |
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Bassenthwaite Lake | 6.2 | 1.1 | 5.3 | 27.7 | 5.3 | 19.0 | 68.0 | 30 | eutrophic |
Blea Water[5] | 0.55 | 0.17 | 0.51 | 3.1 | 488 | ||||
Blelham Tarn[6] | 0.67 | 0.29 | 0.11 | 0.7 | 6.8 | 14.5 | 42.0 | 50 | eutrophic |
Brotherswater | 0.6 | 0.43 | 0.19 | 1.2 | 7.2 | 15.0 | 157.0 | 21 | oligotrophic |
Burnmoor Tarn[7] | 0.83 | 0.24 | 1.23 | 5.1 | 13.0 | 253 | |||
Buttermere | 2.0 | 0.54 | 0.9 | 15.1 | 16.6 | 28.6 | 100.3 | 140 | oligotrophic/mesotrophic |
Cogra Moss[8] | 0.68 | 0.16 | 0.84 | 5.4 | 225 | ||||
Coniston Water | 8.7 | 0.73 | 4.9 | 113.4 | 24.1 | 56.1 | 43.6 | 340 | mesotrophic/oligotrophic |
Crummock Water | 4.0 | 0.85 | 2.5 | 66.7 | 26.7 | 43.9 | 97.8 | 200 | oligotrophic/mesotrophic |
Derwent Water | 4.6 | 1.91 | 5.4 | 29.1 | 5.5 | 22.0 | 75.0 | 55 | mesotrophic |
Devoke Water[9] | 1.17 | 0.34 | 1.89 | 5.5 | 236 | ||||
Easedale Tarn[10] | 0.5 | 0.10 | 0.53 | 5.1 | 282 | ||||
Elter Water | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1637 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 7.0 | 53.0 | 20 | outer basin: mesotrophic middle basin: eutrophic inner basin: hypereutrophic |
Ennerdale Water | 3.8 | 1.1 | 3.0 | 53.5 | 17.8 | 42.0 | 112.2 | 200 | oligotrophic/mesotrophic |
Esthwaite Water | 2.5 | 0.62 | 1.0 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 15.5 | 65.2 | 100 | eutrophic/hypereutrophic |
Grasmere | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 4.7 | 7.7 | 21.5 | 63.4 | 25 | eutrophic |
Grisedale Tarn[11] | 0.55 | 0.11 | 1.28 | 11.6 | 33.0 | 538 | |||
Haweswater | 6.9 | 0.9 | 3.9 | 88.8 | 23.4 | 57.0 | 246.0 | 500 | mesotrophic |
Hayeswater[12] | 0.9 | 0.16 | 0.30 | 1.9 | 426 | ||||
Kentmere Reservoir[13] | 0.7 | 0.16 | 0.78 | 5.0 | 297 | ||||
Levers Water[14] | 0.5 | 0.14 | 1.07 | 7.9 | 413 | ||||
Loweswater | 1.8 | 0.55 | 0.6 | 5.0 | 8.4 | 16.0 | 125.0 | 150 | mesotrophic |
Over Water[15] | 0.73 | 0.20 | 0.45 | 2.3 | 10.0 | 188 | |||
Rydal Water | 1.2 | 0.36 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 4.4 | 18.0 | 53.0 | 9[16] | eutrophic/mesotrophic |
Seathwaite Tarn[17] | 1.15 | 0.24 | 1.33 | 5.5 | 374 | ||||
Tarn Hows[18] | 0.85 | 0.14 | 0.75 | 5.4 | 188 | ||||
Thirlmere | 6.0 | 0.78 | 3.3 | 50.4 | 16.1 | 46.0 | 178.0 | 280 | oligotrophic |
Ullswater | 11.8 | 1.02 | 8.9 | 219.7 | 25.3 | 63.0 | 145.0 | 350 | oligotrophic/mesotrophic |
Wastwater | 4.8 | 0.82 | 2.9 | 110.4 | 40.2 | 76.0 | 61.0 | 350 | oligotrophic |
Wet Sleddale Reservoir[19] | 1.0 | 0.31 | 2.33 | 7.6 | 277 | ||||
Windermere[20] | 16.8 | 1.6 | 14.8 | 314.3 | 21.25 | 64.0 | 39.0 | slightly eutrophic | |
Windermere (north) | 7.0 | 1.6 | 8.1 | 202.1 | 25.1 | 64.0 | 39.0 | 180 | slightly eutrophic |
Windermere (south) | 9.8 | 1.0 | 6.7 | 112.2 | 16.8 | 42.0 | 39.0 | 100 | slightly eutrophic |
Map of major lakes[]
The map shows the locations of the lakes with a volume over 4 x 106 m³ and gives an indication of the volume of water in each lake. The markers suggest this by showing the size of a drop of water where the volume of the drop would be in proportion to the quantity of water in the lake (the diameter of the drop is proportional to the cube root of the lake's volume).[3]
![List of lakes of the Lake District is located in the Lake District List of lakes of the Lake District is located in the Lake District](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Lake_District_National_Park_UK_relief_location_map.png/640px-Lake_District_National_Park_UK_relief_location_map.png)
![Derwent Water Derwent Water](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Blue_pog.svg/15px-Blue_pog.svg.png)
![Wastwater Wastwater](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Blue_pog.svg/24px-Blue_pog.svg.png)
Lakes, tarns and reservoirs[]
- Alcock Tarn, east of Grasmere, below Heron Pike
- Angle Tarn, north of Bowfell
- Angle Tarn, east of Patterdale, by Angletarn Pikes
- Bassenthwaite Lake
- Beacon Tarn in the Blawith fells, west of Coniston Water
- Bigland Tarn near Haverthwaite
- Blackbeck Tarn on Haystacks
- Bleaberry Tarn, north of Red Pike, near Buttermere
- Blea Tarn, near Boot, Eskdale
- Blea Tarn, between Pike of Blisco and Lingmoor Fell
- Blea Tarn, on Watendlath fell, north of Ullscarf
- Blea Water, below High Street
- Blelham Tarn, west of Windermere
- , on the east side of the ridge south of Dow Crag
- , west of the southern end of Windermere
- , on the slopes of Bowscale Fell
- Brothers Water
- Burnmoor Tarn, Between Eskdale and Wasdale
- Buttermere
- Chapelhouse Reservoir, south-east of Uldale
- , east of High Raise and the Langdale Pikes
- Cogra Moss, between Ennerdale Water and Loweswater
- Coniston Water
- Crummock Water
- Dalehead Tarn, between Dale Head and High Spy
- Derwent Water
- Devoke Water
- Dock Tarn, east of Rosthwaite, south of Watendlath
- Easedale Tarn, west of Grasmere
- Elter Water
- Ennerdale Water
- Esthwaite Water
- , north of Great Borne
- Foxes Tarn, north of Scafell
- Goat's Water, west of the Old Man of Coniston
- Grasmere
- , by Middle Fell near Wasdale
- Graythwaite
- Graythwaite
- Grisedale Tarn, between Fairfield and Dollywaggon Pike
- Gurnal Dubs, west of Garnett Bridge
- , in the Wythburn fells, west of Thirlmere
- Haweswater Reservoir
- Hayeswater
- Heights Tarn
- , northwest of Witherslack
- , west of the southern end of Windermere
- , south of Glaramara
- Innominate Tarn, on Haystacks
- Kelly Hall Tarn, south-east of Torver
- Kentmere Reservoir
- , south-east of Bowness-on-Windermere
- , west of Patterdale
- Launchy Tarn, on Dale Head
- Levers Water, on the east side of the Coniston fells
- , north of Clappersgate
- , on Lingmoor Fell
- Little Langdale Tarn
- , near Orthwaite, south of Uldale
- , near Bampton
- , between Torver and Coniston Water
- Loughrigg Tarn, below Loughrigg
- Loweswater
- , south of Red Pike, between Yewbarrow and the Seatallan-Haycock ridge
- , north of the Old Man of Coniston
- , by Flat Fell, Ennerdale
- , south of Clappersgate
- Moss Eccles Tarn, between Windermere and Esthwaite Water
- Over Water, south of Uldale
- , near Eskdale
- Potter Tarn, west of Garnett Bridge
- Red Tarn (Helvellyn), below the summit of Helvellyn
- , between Cold Pike and Pike of Blisco
- Rydal Water
- , below the summit of Blencathra and Sharp Edge
- Schoolknott Tarn, south east of the town of Windermere
- , below Red Pike and Scoat Fell
- Seathwaite Tarn, west of the Coniston fells
- Simpson Ground Reservoir, east of Staveley-in-Cartmel
- , north of Eskdale
- , between Kentmere and Longsleddale
- , east of Skelwith Bridge
- , between Mardale Ill Bell and Harter Fell
- Sprinkling Tarn, between Scafell Pike and Seathwaite Fell
- Stickle Tarn, Langdale, below Pavey Ark in the Langdale Pikes
- Styhead Tarn, at the head of Styhead Gill, at Sty Head Pass, between Scafell Pike and Great Gable
- on Rosthwaite Fell
- Tarn Hows
- , below Low Rigg near St John's in the Vale
- Thirlmere
- , between Windermere and Esthwaite Water
- , between Bowfell and Crinkle Crags
- , disused reservoir on Torver Low Common
- , south east of Wast Water, near the River Irt
- Ullswater
- Wast Water
- Watendlath Tarn
- Wet Sleddale Reservoir
- Windermere
- , between Windermere and Esthwaite Water
- , south east of Wast Water, near the River Irt
- Yew Tree Tarn, between Holme Fell and Tarn Hows
Former lakes, tarns and reservoirs[]
- , east of Black Combe (disused and then removed in 2011)[21]
- , north of Catstycam, dam destroyed by flood, 1931
References[]
- ^ Bassenthwaite Lake was previously known as either Broadwater or Bastunthwaite Water, according to different sources, but is no longer known by these names.
- ^ a b c d e f "Table of lake facts". Environment Agency. Archived from the original on 23 February 2006. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- ^ a b "UK Lakes Portal". Environmental Information Platform. NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ Retention time is an approximate value for mean retention time
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Blea Water". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Blelham Tarn". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Burnmoor Tarn". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Cogra Moss". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Devoke Water". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Easedale Tarn". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Grisedale Tarn". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Hayeswater". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Kentmere Reservoir". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Levers Water". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Over Water". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ Maberly, S.C.; De Ville, M. M.; Thackeray, S.J.; Ainsworth, G.; Carse, F.; Fletcher, J. M.; Groben, R.; Hodgson, P.; James, J. B.; Kelly, J. L.; Vincent, C. D.; Wilson, D. R. "A survey of the lakes of the English Lake District: The Lakes Tour 2005" (PDF). Natural Environment Research Council. p. 9. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Seathwaite Tarn". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Tarn Hows". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "UK Lakes Detail - Wet Sleddale Reservoir". Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ Overall figures for Windermere derived from the two lake portions listed separately here.
- ^ "Dam-busters will put part of Cumbria back together". The Mail. 24 February 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
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