CHAPTER VII 

 ULLS WATER 



ULLSWATER is the second largest of the English 

 lakes, and it is done in the grandest setting. It is 

 7j miles in length, f mile in breadth, and 476 feet 

 above sea level. Its maximum depth is 205 feet, 

 mean depth 83 feet, and it covers 2,201 acres. 



Unlike the majority of the lakes, Ullswater con- 

 sists of three well-defined reaches, and considerable 

 elevation has to be attained before the whole of 

 the lake can be seen at one time. The northern 

 reach is the shortest ; it stretches from Patterdale 

 to House Holme, and is about a mile in length, its 

 course being due north. The second (3 miles) 

 runs north-east to Skelly Nab, where the lake is 

 narrowest. The southern reach (3 miles) runs from 

 Howtown Wyke to Pooley Bridge. 



The principal feeders of Ullswater are the Gold- 

 rill, Grisedale, Glenridding, and Fusedale becks. 

 The Goldrill comes down Patterdale, and receives 

 the waters of Angle Tarn, Brothers Water, and 

 Hayeswater. 1 Glencoin beck enters the lake at the 

 junction of the upper and middle reaches, and there 

 are other more or less important feeders. The 



1 The Grisedale beck empties the tarn of that name, and 

 Glenridding beck Red and Keppel Cove tarns, two sheets- 

 of water in the upper valleys near Helvellyn. 



