Angletarn Pikes stands on the western arm of the long horseshoe ridge which surrounds the Martindale catchment, a system of valleys draining north into Ullswater.

North from the summit a long ridge drops over Stony Rigg (1,640 feet, 500 m) to the walkers’ crossroads of Boredale Hause.

This indented waterbody is about a quarter of a mile long with an island in the middle and forms a picturesque foreground for views of the Pikes.

The tarn sits in a hollow on the centre of the ridge, issuing westwards through a break in the parapet via the ravine of Angletarn Beck.

The ridge proper runs to the east of the tarn above the Bannerdale face, rising again to the unnamed 1,870 feet (570 m) top above Satura Crag.