This walk is a circular walk around Buttermere Lake of approximately 7km.

There is a small car park in Buttermere village near to the Fish Hotel.

Facing the fish hotel bear left, following a wide track signposted as "public bridleway to Buttermere".

The track soon turns left. At the gate go over the stile on the left and continue along the main track as it bears right. Walk along the track to a footbridge; go over this and bear left.

After crossing the beck make for the gate across the rough boulders. Continue along the lakeside track, with the woods to your right. The track goes through a gateway in an old drystone wall and into a much less varied section of woodland.

Continue southeast until the wood ends at a gate and you are out on the open fell. Walk along the path to cross a beck to the right of a small larch wood. Eventually the path runs alongside a wall. Turn left just after a sheepfold, towards a gate. Go through the gate and along the straight track, over another beck and on to a farm.

At the main road turn left, go over the bridge and continue for several hundred meters until the open shore is reached.

At the small parking area take the path along the lake side, signposted "Buttermere via lakeshore path". Follow the path around the rocky eastern lakeshore, through a wicket gate across a field, through another wicket gate and towards the pine trees of Crag Wood.

Go on a few more meters towards a footbridge. Cross the footbridge; the path now follows a much rockier course around the lakeshore, and through a short tunnel.

Go through a wicket gate and through some attractive parkland of lime, beech and sycamore.

At the end of the lake continue straight ahead and then bear right, over a rocky piece of ground. Follow the waymarked track, through a farm and on to Buttermere village.