Wet Sleddale

Upper Sleddale Beck

Wet Sleddale is a small valley in Westmorland carved through the Shap Fells by the Sleddale Beck.

The Beck rises on the barely distinguished massif of the fells, and runs north then north-east. The dale lower down is flooded to create the Wet Sleddale Reservoir, which supplies water to South Lancashire.

Below the reservoir, the waters emerging down the final stretch of the dale form the River Lowther.

Alfred Wainwright wrote of the hills around the dale, describing a walk known as the Wet Sleddale Horseshoe, in his work The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

Wet Sleddale deer enclosures

Wet Sleddale Reservoir