Thank you for sharing! Exactly what I was looking for, planning to sign up to a fell race there in Aug and make a trip out of it.

Each of the major Lakes except one has a name containing one of either: "mere" or "water" both indicate 'lake' in various languages: Old Norse/Cumbric or Old English/Anglo-French. (Only Lake Bassenthwaite has 'Lake' specifically in its name.) There is no reason to add 'lake' or 'water' or 'mere' to the actual names of any of them: So it isn't "LAKE Windermere" it's just Windermere; it isn't "LAKE Grasmere" it's just Grasmere and it isn't "LAKE Rydal Water" it's just Rydal Water. Similarly, there are no such places as Lake Buttermere, Buttermere Water, Lake Coniston, Lake Crummock Water, Lake Wastwater, etc.