PATTERDALE, a chapelry, joint with Hartsop, in the
parish of BARTON, WEST ward, county of WESTMORLAND,
7 miles (N. by E.) from Ambleside. The population is
returned with Hartsop. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and
£ 500 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Earl of Lonsdale. The church is dedicated to St. Patrick.
There is a small school endowed with £6 per
annum. Patterdale lies along the upper reach of Ullswater,
amidst scenery of a most sublime character, the
view being bounded by a vast amphitheatre of mountains,
which surrounds the lake. It is intersected by
numerous' rills from the mountains, and by others
flowing from the three tarns, Brotherwater, Hayswater,
and Angle tarn, emptying themselves into lake Ullswater;
at the head of the latter is an inn for the convenience
of tourists, near which a large fair for sheep
is held in October. There are several very productive
quarries of fine blue slate in the neighbourhood.