Barrowdale – Lake District

Borrowdale is 3 miles south of Keswick, extending from the south shore of Derwentwater to Honister Pass.

Leading south from Derwent water, Borrowdale is surrounded by rugged crags, inviting fells, old mine workings and wooded valleys with clean rivers. The fine sessile oak woodlands are of particular ecological interest, and the damp, western climate supports internationally important lichens, mosses and insects. An alder woodland and marsh along the shores of Derwentwater provide an ideal nesting site for wildfowl and waders. Brandlehow, on the west shore of Derwentwater, was the first large ‘property’ to be bought by the Trust in 1902.