WATER MILLOCK (commonly called New Church), is a township, parish and village, on the north side of Ulleswater Lake, 7½ miles south-west from Penrith, and 6 miles south from Penruddock Station, on the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith railway, in the mid-division of the county, Leath ward and petty sessional division, county court district of Penrith, rural deanery of Penrith west, and archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle. The church of All Saints was entirely rebuilt in 1884; the ancient chapel here stood on the margin of the lake, but in 1558 a new chapel was built at the foot of Priest Cragg, and it was on this account that the place attained the name of "New Church;" the present edifice consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north porch, and a western tower, containing one bell. There are 300 sittings. The registers date from 1579, and there is a copy of a register dated 1492 [This statement appears in a great many 19th century directories but I have asked at Carlisle Record Office as regards this 1492 register and they deny possession, knowledge as to its whereabouts, and indeed ever its very existence]. The living was declared a rectory, 18^th December, 1866; average tithe rent charge, £4; net yearly value, £196, with 80 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Rector of Greystoke, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Thomas Hackworth B.A. of Durham University and surrogate. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. [Ulcat Row?] the only charity is the interest of about £200 in Consols, left by the late Thomas Rumney, and producing £5 5s. yearly, which is given to five poor parishioners not in receipt of parish relief. The district, which is 6 miles in length and 2½ in width, extends along the northern side of Ulleswater; the scenery is delightfully picturesque and beautiful, and includes among its attractions Gowbarrow Park, a demesne of 2,000 acres, the higher portion of which affords a splendid view of the lake; on the west side of the park, in a deep ravine, is a fine cascade known as "Ara, or Aira Force;" which falls perpendicularly through a cleft in the rocks from a height of 80 feet, and the stream precipitating itself on to a projecting ledge, is expanded, and rushes foaming into the gully below; to the south-west is Glencoin Park.

Ulleswater Lake, which forms the eastern limit of this parish, is in both counties [Cumberland & Westmorland], the boundary line between the two running through the centre of its upper and middle reaches, and then going directly west, thus leaving the lower reach [upper and lower should be transposed as lake flows out into River Eamont at Pooley Bridge, eastern end] of the lake entirely in Westmorland; these reaches are caused by the configuration of the lake, the course of which is twice altered at a considerable angle; at the south end of the upper [lower] reach is a creek called Howtown Bay, and in the lower [upper] reach are four islets, known as House Holm, Ling Holm, Wall Holm, and Cherry Holm; the lake is 7½ miles long, and about ¾ miles wide, and has an extreme altitude of 477 feet above the sea level; its greatest depth, according to a bathymetrical survey taken in 1893 by Dr. R.H. Mill for the Royal Geographical Society, being 208 feet deep; this survey also revealed the interesting fact that the bottom of the lake was divided into a series of deep basins separated from each other by intervening bars; the fells on the east side vary in elevation from 715 feet at How Town to 2,154 feet at Place Fell, by the south extremity, and 2,201 feet at Loadpot Hill, east of Martindale, through which the Roman road, called High street, runs from Penrith southwards; on the west side of the lake the falls [fells] rise from 904 feet, at its northern point, to 1,579 feet on Gowbarrow Fell, and 1,945 [feet] at Brown hills, and beyond are Stybarrow Dodd, 2,756 feet, and Great Dodd, 2,804 feet; the lake is fed from the north by [wrong - it flows out at the north into] the River Eamont, and on the south by the Red Tarn, Griesdale [Grisedale] and Coldrill [Goldrill] becks, and various rivulets discharge themselves into it on either side; the irregular form of Ulleswater, and the varied character of its immediate surroundings, make it at once the grandest, if not the most attractive, of the English lakes; some of the finest views of the lake are obtained from Hallen Fell (1,271 feet), on the eastern shore, and Gowbarrow Park on the west, but the general survey is best made by taking the steamer, which runs four times daily, to and from Pooley Bridge to Howtown and Patterdale [Glenridding]. Lyulph’s Tower, which stands at a short distance from the lake, was erected by one of the Howards, and is a modern castellated mansion, covered with ivy, and now the lake residence of Henry Charles Howard esq. D.L., J.P. of Greystoke Castle. On the shores of the lake stand Hallsteads, the residence of Arthur Marshall esq. Beauthorn, of John Bush esq. Rampsbeck, of William Pritt esq. J.P. Leaming House, of Mrs. Le Grix White, and other residences. The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, varied. The land is chiefly pasture, and the crops oats. The area is 8,925 acres of land and 873 of water; rateable value £5,398; the population in 1891 was 446.

Sparket is 3 miles north from the church.

THACKENTHWAITE [Thackthwaite] is a hamlet 2½ miles north from the church. H.C. Howard D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor

POST OFFICE, Water Millock - William Simpson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Penrith at 7.10 a.m.; & dispatched at 4.10 p.m. Pooley Bridge is the nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid.

WALL BOX, Girl’s School, cleared at 3.45

Endowed School (boys), built in 1860 [but originally founded at least by 1698], and endowed with about £752 in Consols, producing £22 15s. yearly; the school will hold 80 boys; average attendance 23. Charles William Woodward, master.

Endowed (girls), built in 1832, and endowed with £656 in Consols, producing £17 yearly; the school will hold 25 girls; average attendance, 17. Miss Alice Pattinson, mistress.

Coach passes through Water Millock to Penrith every tuesday, thursday & saturday during summer months.