Lake District Waterfalls

We got to see some of the best waterfalls in the Lake District on our recent trip. We drove past Moss Force on our way to Buttermere, there was a car park on the roadside, but we didn’t have time to stop. Sour Milk Gill (pictured above and below) flows into Buttermere from nearly 400m high, with a little bridge at the bottom to view it from.

About a mile and a half from the lake is Scale Force, the largest single-drop waterfall in the Lake District, which is also considered the highest waterfall in the Lakes. We had the waterfall to ourselves, meaning I could climb over the rocks for a better photo.

The final waterfall we saw was Lodore Falls, just a short walk from the National Trust car park at Derwentwater. 

Sizergh Castle

 

Sizergh Castle is a National Trust owned property near Kendal in the Lake District. The house is open from Thursday to Sunday, so we didn’t get to look inside when we visited, but there are lots of walks around the estate, an orchard, and pretty walled gardens to mooch around.

We stopped off at Sizergh Castle on the way home from the Lake District, so we didn’t have time to do the longer estate walks; you could easily spend a whole day here exploring.

Photos from the Lake District

 

I’ve written about each of these places on the blog before, but here are some photos I took the other week in the Lake District. I’d booked a trip away in September so it wouldn’t be too busy or warm. It ended up being one of the hottest days of the year, and Grasmere was incredibly busy, so we took a rowing boat out on the lake to escape the crowds. The photo above is available as a greetings card in my Etsy shop if you'd like to take a look.

We stopped at Skelwith Bridge to see the waterfall Skelwith Force and walked to Elterwater, which looked stunning. Finally, we watched the sunset over Lake Windermere.