Kirkstone Pass
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Kirkstone Pass is a mountain pass in the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria. It is at an altitude of 1,489 feet.
This is the Lake District's highest pass that is open to motor traffic and it connects Ambleside in the Rothay Valley to Patterdale in the Ullswater Valley - the A592 road. In places, the gradient is 1 in 4. Brothers Water provides a picturesque view, on the descent to Patterdale.
The Kirkstone Pass Inn stands close to the summit of the pass. Formerly an important coaching inn, it now caters primarily for tourists. It is the third highest public house in England.
[edit] Trivia
In Cue For Treason, the best known novel of the children's writer Geoffrey Trease, much of it set in Cumbria, one character adopts the pseudonym "Kit Kirkstone", taken from the Kirkstone Pass.
[edit] External links
- Map sources for Kirkstone Pass
