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Brother water Lake District
Located in the Hartsop valley and often by-passed by visitors as they negotiate their way through the Kirkstone pass,Brothers water is considered by some to be the sixteenth lake ahead of Elterwater. Originally called Broad Water its name now derives from the unfortunate event when two brother drowned in the lake.Whilst ice skating on the lake in about 1875 two more brothers drowned which prompted Dorothy Wordsworth to state "It is remarkable that two pairs of brothers have been drowned in that lake." At the north eastern end of Brothers water lies the village of Hartsop containing several seventeen century farm buildings and stone cottages.Some of the buildings still contain spinning rooms where the inhabitants would have made their own clothing,selling any surplus in the local market towns.The word Hartsop means "valley of the deer" which would have lived in the woodlands of the lower areas of the surrounding fells.
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brothers water There are a number of excellent walks around brothers water with stuuning views from the higher fells