Watermillock

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Watermillock
Cumberland
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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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References

  1. Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince, Frommer's England 2010 (John Wiley & Sons, 19 Aug 2009), 650.
  2. Jules Brown, The Rough Guide to the Lake District (Rough Guides UK, 24 Jan 2013), 213.
  3. Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince, Frommer's England 2010 (John Wiley & Sons, 19 Aug 2009), 650.