Buttermere, Cumberland

Description
Buttermere, a village, a township, a chapelry, and a lake in Brigham parish, Cumberland. The village stands about midway between Buttermere Lake and Crummock Water, 8 1/2 miles SW of Keswick railway station, and 10 SSE of Cockermouth, and consists of only a church, two good inns, and a few scattered houses. The church is a neat building on the site of a previous one, which was said to be the smallest in England, and one of the inns supplies boats for the neighbouring lakes, and is notable for the pathetic story of " Mary of Buttermere." The chapelry includes the village, which has a post office under Cockermouth; money order office, High Lorton; telegraph office, Portinscale. Acreage of the township, 6851; population, 97; of the chapelry, 121. The general surface is a grand vale, engirt with mountains, and much occupied with lakes. A steep mountain pass, called Buttermere-Haws, goes from the village to an elevation of about 1600 feet, on the road to Keswick. Blue slate is quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £73 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The lake extends from the head of the vale to within a mile of Crummock Water, is 1 1/2 mile long, 1 of a mile broad, and 90 feet deep, and has a surface elevation of 247 feet above the level of the sea. Its face looks gloomy, but its skirts are magnificent, being immediately overhung by Honister Crag, with a precipitous front about 1500 feet high, and by the Hay-Stacks, High-Crag, High-Stile, Red-Pike, Buttermere-Moss, and Great-Robinson Mountains.