Ullswater

At ye end of this Ullswater is a fine round hill Look'd as green and full of wood very pleasant, wth grass and Corne very ffruitefull, and hereabout we Leave these Desart and Barren Rocky hills, not that they are Limitted to Westmoreland only for had I gone farther to ye

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

But the gilding glamour of childlike hope softens and shields from view the rough inequalities and murderous quicksands of futurity, mellowing all, like the silvery lustre of Kensett's "Ullswater," or the rich purple haze that brims far-off yawning chasms, and tenderly tapestries the bleak, bald crags that pile themselves up into vast mountain chains, with huge shining shrines, draped with crystal palls of snow.

St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867

The Lightning Tree in Dale Bottom near Keswick is another example as are at least two other such denuded trees: one by Ullswater near where boats are moored, the other on Lingmoor, a lone fellside sentinel.

Country diary: Lake district 2011

Gray laid down the vital tour and stopping points: first Ullswater and Derwentwater, then past Helvellyn to Grasmere and Ambleside.

A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011

Below – as if seen from the window seat of an aeroplane coming in to land – woods and fields and gunbarrel-grey Ullswater, disappear round a bend in the hills.

Country diary: Lake District 2011

There is drama of a different, impersonal, kind in Joseph Wright of Derby's painting of Ullswater, where rolling mountains loom against pale sky behind a lake whose waters gleam with golden light.

A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011

Over Great End, Skiddaw and Blencathra it hurtled, sending cat's-paws racing across the lakes of Bassenthwaite, Derwentwater, Windermere, Coniston Water and fjord-like Ullswater.

Country diary: Lake District 2011

'That kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture' ... detail from a painting of Ullswater by Joseph Wright of Derby.

A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011

Ali had presumably travelled north along the shore of Ullswater, rounded Loadpot Hill and turned south down the Lowther valley, until three miles from where she began, but 45 minutes by car, she could take the narrow track east across the moor.

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By the 1780s the Ullswater pleasure boats were mounted with canon, their blasts echoing from rock to rock like crashing thunder.

A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011