Watermillock
| Watermillock | |
| Cumberland | |
|---|---|
 All Saints, Watermillock | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY445224 |
| Location: | 54°35’38"N, 2°51’32"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Penrith |
| Postcode: | CA11 |
| Dialling code: | 017684 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Westmorland & Furness |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Penrith and The Border |
Watermillock is a Cumberland village standing on the western shore of Ullswater, in the Lake District.
The village is popular with tourists, with several campsites and two hotels.[1][2]
All Saints Church, Watermillock was built in 1881 of slate and red sandstone, replacing an earlier church at the site of what is now known as the Old Church Hotel. All the windows are memorials to various people, including Cecil Spring Rice and Stephen Spring Rice, who grew up in the village.
The village is accessed by the A592 road.[3] The Outward Bound Trust own the village manor next to the lake.
About the village
The most celebrated of the waterfalls of the Lake District, Aira Force, is to be found to the west of the village.
Overspreading the ridge of high land above Ullswater here is Watermillock Common, which rises 1,312 feet above the lake. It is the end part of one of the long eastern ridges of Stybarrow Dodd, and lies 656 feet lower than the Hart Side part of the ridge, of which it may be considered a subsidiary top.
The village and outlying farms are widely scattered between the lake and Little Mell Fell. Much of the high ground around the village was once deer forest, popular with the local gentry for hunting.
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