Watermillock

Watermillock
Watermillock
	Parish Church of All Saints, Watermillock
	Watermillock Location in Eden, Cumbria Watermillock Location within Cumbria
OS grid reference	NY445224
Civil parish	Matterdale;
Unitary authority	Westmorland and Furness;
Ceremonial 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
UK Parliament	Penrith and The Border;
	List of places UK England Cumbria 54°35′38″N 2°51′32″W / 54.594°N 2.859°W

Watermillock is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Matterdale, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. It is on the western shore of Ullswater, in the English Lake District. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 448.^[1] On 1 April 1934 the civil parish was merged into Matterdale.^[2]

The settlement is popular with tourists, with several campsites and two hotels.^[3]^[4] 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.^{[citation needed]}

The village is accessed by the A592 road.^[5] 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.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "Population Statistics Watermillock Tn/CP through time". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ "Relationships and changes Watermillock Tn/CP through time". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince, Frommer's England 2010 (John Wiley & Sons, 19 Aug 2009), 650.
^ Jules Brown, The Rough Guide to the Lake District (Rough Guides UK, 24 Jan 2013), 213.
^ Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince, Frommer's England 2010 (John Wiley & Sons, 19 Aug 2009), 650.