Watermillock

Watermillock
Parish Church of All Saints, Watermillock
Watermillock  Watermillock shown within Cumbria
OS grid reference	NY445224
Civil parish	Matterdale
District	Eden
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PENRITH
Postcode district	CA11
Dialling code	017684
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Penrith and The Border
List of places UK England Cumbria

Coordinates: 54°35′38″N 2°51′32″W / 54.594°N 2.859°W

Watermillock is a village located on the western shore of Ullswater, in the English Lake District.

The settlement is popular with tourists, with several campsites and two hotels.^[1][2] 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. 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. The waterfall of Aira Force is situated to the west of the village.

See also

• Listed buildings in Matterdale

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.