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Watermillock

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.

Watermillock
Watermillock · Rosser1954
The place

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. On 1 April 1934 the civil parish was merged into Matterdale.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Watermillock

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Ullswater

    Lake in the English Lake District

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Barton

    Village in Barton and Pooley Bridge, Eden, Cumbria, England

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Gowbarrow Fell

    Mountain in Cumbria, United Kingdom

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Little Mell Fell

    Mountain in United Kingdom

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bonscale Pike

    Mountain in United Kingdom

    2.4 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hallin Fell

    Mountain in United Kingdom

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    All Saints Church, Watermillock

    Church in Matterdale, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria , England, UK

    1.5 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Dunmallard Hill

    Hill in Dacre, Cumbria, England

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Arthur's Pike

    Fell in the English Lake District

    2.4 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Peter's Church, Martindale

    Church in Martindale, Cumbria, United Kingdom

    3.4 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Watermillock

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 90 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 112 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 128 km
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Watermillock
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–14
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Watermillock
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £17–22
  • Liverpool → Watermillock
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Watermillock

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Watermillock. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundYou can take your bike on the Transport for London Woolwich Ferry across the River Thames.
  • Get aroundThe ferry operates between Woolwich and North Woolwich (Silvertown) and is free.
  • Get aroundYou can take your bike on Wightlink ferries betweenː Lymington, Hampshire and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight Portsmouth, Hampshire and Fishbourne, Isle of Wight Portsmouth, Hampshire and Ryde, Isle of Wight You must make a reservation at no additional cost.
  • Get aroundBikes are stowed on the ferry car decks of car ferries or the bike store on Portsmouth–Ryde Pier Head FastCats.
  • Get aroundYou can take your bike on Red Funnel ferries betweenː Southampton, Hampshire and West Cowes, Isle of Wight Southampton, Hampshire and East Cowes, Isle of Wight You can bring bicycles on board free of charge.

From Wikivoyage: Cycling in England and Wales, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    182 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    215 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    242 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    325 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    342 km

If you know how people move in Watermillock – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Watermillock