Thirlmere and St. Johns in the Vale photographs

high rigg summit footpath in a hailstorm under ominous dark storm clouds

High Rigg summit hailstorm

colourful red blue dawn sky over tewet tarn and blencathra from dry stone wall on low rigg

Tewet Tarn dawn

atmospheric summer sunset over thirlmere reservoir under clear red sky with silhouetted lonscale fell and blencathra on skyline

Thirlmere Reservoir sunset

Fields of St John’s in the Vale

St. John’s in the Vale

woodland reflections on Thirlmere Reservoir shoreline

Autumnal Thirlmere shoreline

Sosgill Bridge over St. Johns Beck

Blencathra perfectly reflected in Tewet Tarn at dawn under clear blue skies

Blencathra from Tewet Tarn

Castlerigg panorama

Castlerigg stone circle

Thirlmere and St. Johns in the Vale photographs was last modified: January 10th, 2022 by Gavin Dronfield

Gallery of Lake District photos from the Thirlmere Reservoir valley, from Dunmail Raise in the south to Low Rigg and St. Johns in the Vale to the north.

By Lake District standards the Thirlmere Valley is quiet, especially considering its location between the busy Ullswater and Borrowdale valleys. I am guessing this is partly explained by the lack of any settlements of any size in the valley.

Before Victorian times there used to be a village called Wythburn here but now only the church remains. The rest of the village was evacuated and the valley flooded to create the Thirlmere Reservoir to help provide water to Manchester.