A Queen Elizabeth II Lamp Box in Buttermere, Cumberland. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/699c6649894e8ee53de4625d #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #Buttermere
New on the map: a King George VI Wall Box in Buttermere, Cumberland. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/699c60ea894e8ee53de46233 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #Buttermere

Buttermere and Hasness, Lake District, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles England Buttermere (Lake)

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Buttermere and Crummock Water, Lake District, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles England Buttermere (Lake)

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Borrowdale Valley, from Bowder Stone, Lake District, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles England Buttermere (Lake)

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The Maid of Buttermere

Back home now, back on my own patch, yet the pull of the Lakes refuses to loosen its grip. I cannot leave without telling the tale of the Maid of Buttermere, a story that has clung to the valley like the morning mist on the fells. It is an eighteenth-century mix of beauty, trickery, and ruin, played out against some of the wildest scenery in England.

Mary Robin ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/01/01/the-maid-of-buttermere/

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Burtness Comb: A Watch Lost and a Frozen River

Burtness Comb hangs above Buttermere like a great green amphitheatre, tucked between High Stile and High Crag. I once picked my way down it during the Lake District Mountain Trial in 1978. Somewhere on that bracken-choked slope, there may still be an orange-faced Omega watch, a twenty-first birthday gift, qui ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/12/31/burtness-comb-a-watch-lost-and-a-frozen-river/

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