Buttermere, England sits in one of the Lake District’s most dramatic pockets, where the Buttermere Lakeshore Walk traces quiet water below Fleetwith Pike and Haystacks, and the climb toward Rannerdale Knotts opens out over Crummock Water. Around the village and through Lanthwaite Wood, trails thread past stone walls, sheep pasture, and steep green fells that make this valley feel both intimate and wild.