Rannerdale is seen by most visitors to Buttermere – but only as a farm and a cottage and a patchwork of fields on the shore of Crummock Water: a pleasant green oasis in the lap of shaggy fells, but remarkable.

Rannerdale has a place in history as the setting of a fierce battle in which the Norman Invaders were ambushed and routed by the English in the years after the conquest.

This is Rannerdale Knotts, a mountain in miniature, and a proud one. Not even Gable has witnessed a real battle! And, what’s more, our side won!!