Emerging from the Honister Pass we came upon the small town of Buttermere. We parked in a car park set above the village and its parish church with a good view of the fells. We made our way into town making friends with a border collie puppy along the way. In town we saw the Fish Inn (home of Mary known as the Maid of Buttermere, considered a great beauty and written about by both Wordsworth and Coleridge. She Married a Colonel Augustus Hope who was later discovered to be a fraud and already married). We also saw the streams and a bit of Buttermere water. It was certainly a hidden jewel in the district, obviously well used by hikers and without the tourist frills and shops. As we were leaving Buttermere we saw some cows being led home via the road by a purple truck and kept in line by a border collie nipping at their hocks.
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