There is a timeless quality to Ullswater. Its name is believed to derive from an early Viking settler, but there is evidence of earlier history in the mysterious stone circle, known as The Cockpit on Barton Fell; the fifteen-hundred year old Yew Tree in the grounds of The Old Church Hotel, which possibly marks the site of Pagan worship long before a church was built there some time in the twelfth century. The hamlet of Bennet Head derived its name from a long-gone Benedictine monastery. The High Street Roman road (of which nothing remains but name and legend) offers a glorious stride from Pooley Bridge on the northern tip of Ullswater, over the mountains to Ambleside.
Ullswater - Cumbria