Ullswater Crescent

Just up from the eastern end of Quarry Woods is an area with a series of place names that refer us to the Lake District in Cumbria - among them Ullswater Crescent.

Nine miles long, Ullswater Lake is on the boundary of the former counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. Ranging mainly between a quarter and three-quarters of a mile across, it is 476 feet above sea level and has a maximum depth of 205 feet.

The name is said to come from an ancient Scandinavian called Ulf (Ulfr) - hence Ulf's water which has become Ullswater over the centuries. Curiously, another Cumbrian place name, Ullock, is thought to have a rather different derivation - that is from Ulfa or wolves.