Patterdale (Saint Patrick's Dale) is a small village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.

[1] The poet William Wordsworth lived near Patterdale in his youth, and his autobiographical poem The Prelude narrates such childhood activities as fishing in the lake from a stolen boat.

Other fells that can be reached from the valley include Place Fell, High Street, Glenridding Dodd, most of the peaks in the Helvellyn range, Fairfield and St Sunday Crag, and Red Screes and Stony Cove Pike at the very end of the valley, standing either side of the Kirkstone Pass which is the road to Ambleside.

In 2023, Eden District was abolished and absorbed into the newly created Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area.

The A592 road, Windermere to Penrith runs through the parish from the col of the Kirkstone Pass in the south to Glencoyne Bridge in the north.