Lake · England

Blea Water

484 m1,588 ft

Area: 0.17 km²
Tonight: 3°CPartly cloudy · Wind 18 km/h W

Blea Water is a lake at 484 m above sea level in England, United Kingdom, 0.17 km² in area and 0.6 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 484 m
Length: 0.6 km
Shoreline: 1.6 km

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Lake

Blea Water in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 1.6 km≈30 min to walk around

3D map

Blea Water 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Blea Water terrain and contours

20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the centre

Blea Water elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Blea Water weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 3°C (37°F) · Wind 18 km/h W

Blea Water forecast for about 484 m.

Tonight3°–18 km/h W
Today3°9°36.0 mm48 km/h W
Sun5°7°4.5 mm47 km/h W
Mon5°11°17.9 mm35 km/h SW
Tue6°10°10.8 mm41 km/h S
Wed8°9°3.9 mm24 km/h SW
Thu6°8°0.9 mm14 km/h S
Fri7°9°10.2 mm20 km/h S
Sat3°8°4.3 mm22 km/h SE
Sun3°6°0.4 mm21 km/h NW

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Blea Water

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Blea Water, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest parking
Mardale Head Car Park
2.1 km E · +2 more within 2.7 km
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Nearest hut
Sykeside Bunkhouse
4.7 km WNW · +2 more within 6.7 km
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Nearest campsite
Sykeside Camping Site
4.8 km WNW · +1 more within 7.0 km
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Nearest caravan site
Hartsop Fold
5.1 km NW · +1 more within 5.2 km
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All mapped places 10

Place	Distance
Mardale Head Car ParkParking	2.1 km E
Parking	2.2 km E
Parking	2.7 km E
Sykeside BunkhouseHut	4.7 km WNW
Mosedale CottageHut	4.8 km ESE
Sykeside Camping SiteCampsite	4.8 km WNW
Hartsop FoldCaravan site	5.1 km NW
Hartsop Fold Holiday LodgesCaravan site	5.2 km NW
Noran Bank Farm BunkhouseHut	6.7 km NW
Patterdale Youth Hostel camp siteCampsite	7.0 km NW

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

30.0%

Moderate, 15–30°

40.1%

Steep, 30–45°

27.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

2.3%

Steeper than 30°: 29.9% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view: 591 m low point 237 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 96.6%Water 2.1%Trees 1.2%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 2 km of Blea Water.

Summit list 5

1Mardale Ill Bell760 m 0.6 km S
2High Street (summit)829 m 0.8 km WNW
3Harter Fell778 m 1.8 km SE
4Kidsty Pike781 m 1.8 km N
5Thornthwaite Crag784 m 1.8 km WSW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 126 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Bog asphodel10
Common Butterwort7
Water Lobelia5
Golden-ringed Dragonfly5
Round-leaved sundew4
European goldenrod4

Where it sits

Where Blea Water sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

UllswaterLake · 144 m9.7 km NNW

Downloads

Blea Water downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGBlea Water satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-09-22.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-09-22)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · Wikipedia

Blea Water

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