Blea Water

#2194 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Lake

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Blea Water is a tarn or corrie lake which occupies a glacially excavated hollow immediately to the east of High Street in the Lake District, England. At just over 200 feet deep, it is the deepest tarn in the Lake District. ()

Maximum depth: 206 ftElevation: 1598 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 54°29'21"N, 2°51'9"W

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Blea Water – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: High Street, Harter Fell, Hayeswater, Thornthwaite Crag.

0.5 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
High Street
14 min walk • High Street is a fell in the English Lake District. At 828 metres, its summit is the highest point in the far eastern part of the national park. The fell is named after the possible Roman road which ran over the summit.
1.1 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Harter Fell
29 min walk • Harter Fell is a fell in the far eastern part of the English Lake District. The summit at lies the meeting point of three ridges, and Harter Fell forms the head of three valleys: Mardale, Longsleddale and the valley of the River Kent.
1.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Hayeswater
36 min walk • Hayeswater is a small lake within the Lake District of Cumbria, England. The lake is situated about a mile SE of the hamlet of Hartsop in the Patterdale Valley.
1.1 miSW
Nature, Hill, Natural attraction
Thornthwaite Crag, Ambleside
30 min walk • Thornthwaite Crag is a fell in the English Lake District, standing to the west of Haweswater Reservoir. It is a focal point of the Far Eastern Fells, standing at the head of several valleys.
1.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
The Knott, Ambleside
36 min walk • The Knott is a fell in the English Lake District, standing above Hayeswater in the Far Eastern Fells. It is an outlier of Rampsgill Head, being the high point of the ridge from there to Rest Dodd.
1.1 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Kidsty Pike, Ambleside
30 min walk • Kidsty Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, standing to the west of Haweswater Reservoir. It is a subsidiary top of Rampsgill Head, but has long achieved the status of a separate fell, thanks to its classic peaked profile.
0.4 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Mardale Ill Bell, Ambleside
12 min walk • Mardale Ill Bell is a fell in the English Lake District, rising to the south west of Haweswater Reservoir. It stands on the watershed between Mardale and Kentmere and is the highpoint of the south-eastern ridge of High Street, midway on its course to Harter Fell.