Ullswater

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Ullswater

Ullswater in the English Lake District, known as England’s most beautiful lake, the second largest Lake in the Lake District, approximately nine miles in length and three quarters of a mile wide. Lake Ullswater offers so much to do all year round be it in or out of the water, on the watersport activities such as wild swimming, Trout fishing (Seasonal), diving, sailing, canoeing, boat trips and for the less adventurous pebble skimming on the many secluded bays and much more.

Ullswater's surrounding area offers some of the best rambling trails in the Lakes, walks around Ullswater include Helvellyn, High Street, St Sunday Crag or for easier less demanding routes (rated moderate / easy) why not try the following walks... Martindale to Patterdale, Lanty's Tarn Circular Walk and Glenridding to Howtown.

Ullswater's attractions include the ferry rides known as 'Steamers', ferries that sales up and down the Ullswater lake. They sail betwen Pooley Bridge, Glenridding and Howtown. The 'Steamers' operate all year round and were originally working boats which from the 1850s moved mail, workers and goods to and from the Greenside lead mine at Glenridding. Today there are four 'Steamers' offer passage around the waters of Ullswater. Why don't you catch a 'Steamer' from Glenridding to Howtown and then return on foot along the lakeshore to complete one of the most popular and scenic low-level walks in the Lake District?

Towns and villages around Lake Ullswater are Glenridding, Howtown, Martindale, Patterdale, Pooley Bridge, Sandwick and Watermillock.

Ullswater is an ideal place for Camping, with numerous campsites, Walking, Rambling, Climbing on a fast amount of trails, Fishing and much more.

Ullswater provides so many picturesque views, and the spring Daffodils inspired the famous poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" written by William Wordsworth... I I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. the inspiration is said have come from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater. Dorothy's writing in reference to this walk in 1802 which eventually inspired Wordsworth to write "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804.

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