Ullswater is the second largest lake in the English Lake District,
being approximately nine miles (14.5 kilometres) long and 0.75 miles (1,200 m)
wide with a maximum depth of slightly more than 60 metres (197 ft). Many
regard Ullswater as the most beautiful of the English lakes: it has been
compared to Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. It is a typical Lake District narrow
"ribbon lake" formed after the last ice age when a glacier scooped
out the valley floor and when the glacier retreated, the deepened section
filled with meltwater which became a lake. A total of three separate glaciers
formed the lake. The
