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Buttermere, which is surrounded by fells, notably the High Stile range, and Haystacks, topped the poll, with 18 per cent of the vote.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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For the celestial groundsman's final touch, early daffodils are starting to gild the verges with a hint of yellow by Buttermere and Bassenthwaite.
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Through tendrils of mist Buttermere and Crummock Water could just be seen, silvery and beguiling, like looking through the wrong end of a telescope.
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Or even when it gusts into your face as you descend precipitous Crag Hill above Buttermere, grateful that it will not – from this direction, at least – precipitate a stumble into the abyss below.
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And Gamlin End (High Crag) forms the crux of the crest between Ennerdale and Buttermere; a point where walkers truly feel the end is nigh.
Country diary: Border End Tony Greenbank 2010
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Driving back through Buttermere, I stopped on Honister Pass for a climb up on to the skyline above.
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Where Buttermere pleases the eye and gives a sense of pastoral wellbeing, and Windermere offers itself up like a playground, the water here remains inscrutable, and keeps putting the question back to you, like a mirror.
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Now it is pedalling on via Devoke Water, Wastwater (a third swim), Ennerdale Water, Loweswater, Crummock Water and finally – as Johnson leads his companions into the village – Buttermere.
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Some say Ullswater's shore path from Glenridding to Howtown is the best, while others vouch for the pathway around Buttermere with its tunnel through the rocks.
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In the past floods have joined together Buttermere and Crummock lakes into one huge mere, and unified Thirlmere periodically long before Manchester Corporation turned it into one big reservoir.
A seasonal lament 2009
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