Little Langdale Cumbria The Lake District.

Little Langdale village near Skelwith Bridge Cumbria

Little Langdale

(See also Great and Little Langdale)

Little Langdale is a hamlet of a few scattered stone houses and a pub in the valley of the same name. The Three Shires Inn gets its name from the location two miles away where the boundaries of the old counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire met.

At the head of the valley is Blea Tarn. Stone built Blea Tarn House, built in the 1600s, sits nearby. Wordsworth in his poem Excursion: Book Second: The Solitary wrote of the house:

And one bare dwelling; one abode, no more!
It seemed the home of poverty and toil,
Though not of want: the little fields, made green
By husbandry of many thrifty years. . .

Location Map of Little Langdale
Little Langdale is located on a minor road off the A593 near Skelwith Bridge.

Photos courtesy of Graeme Dougal and Tony Richards

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