Patterdale
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 32 ′ N , 2 ° 56 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | NY3915 | ||
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| Residents | 501 (2011) | ||
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| Post town | PENRITH | ||
| ZIP code section | CA11 | ||
| prefix | 017684 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | North West England | ||
| Shire county | Cumbria | ||
| District | Eden | ||
| Civil Parish | Patterdale | ||
| British Parliament | Penrith and The Border | ||
Patterdale is the name of a small town in the Lake District National Park in Northern England and belongs to the county of Cumbria . The place has a church, a primary school , a hotel and a youth hostel. Lake Ullswater is located in the valley of the same name .
The name is derived from Patrick's Valley ("dale" = valley, is a variant of the Old Norse dalr ) and traditions say that Saint St. Patrick worked here. However, it is more likely that it was a later missionary of the same name. In 1184 the place was called Patrichesdale .
From Patterdale there are connecting roads over Kirkstone Pass to Ambleside and Windermere in the south and a road along the Ullswater to Penrith in the north.
Patterdale is the starting point for mountain hikes in the Hellvellyn area to the west , 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 place and valley of Patterdale was one of the preferred places in the Lake District as they had remained relatively untouched by tourism.
The only other place in the Patterdale valley is Glenridding to the north . South of the valley is the Tarn Brothers Water , one of the first places in the Lake District to be acquired by the National Trust .
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Remarks
- ↑ Parish population 2011 ( English ) Retrieved June 23, 2015.
- ↑ Lake District Place Names , Robert Gambles, Dalesman Books, Clapham 1985
