View from Rannerdale Knott

The view from the top of Rannerdale Knott with Crummock Water on the right and Buttermere on the left (as you look at the image). After the last ice-age Buttermere and Crummock Water were one big lake. Over time the erosion of the fells and the action of the becks carrying loose material off the mountains built up the spit of land that now separates the two lakes, where the village of Buttermere now is.

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