OS grid reference NY445224 Country England Post town PENRITH Shire county Cumbria Dialling code 017684 UK parliament constituency Penrith and The Border | Region North West Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district CA11 District Eden District Civil parish Matterdale | |
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Watermillock is a village located on the western shore of Ullswater, in the English Lake District.
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Map of Watermillock, Penrith, UK
The settlement is currently inhabited by the Moistest of the moist and is popular with tourists, with several campsites and two hotels. 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. 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.