Family rescued from Ullswater

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called out to rescue a family lost on fells above Ullswater.

At 16.45pm on Sunday, July 25 the police called the Team to locate and assist a family from Manchester who had become disorientated and needed assistance to get back down to their holiday lodging at Swarthbeck, Ullswater.

The parents and six children, aged from six-months to nine years old, were located by the Team and brought back down to Pooley Bridge by Landrover. The family were cold but unhurt.

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