Crummock Water

Crummock Water is a lake in northern English Lake District National Park. It is between 500 and 900 meters wide, four kilometers long and 44 meters deep and is owned by the National Trust.

The lake runs from northwest to southeast and is separated from the southeast, Buttermere by an approximately one- kilometer-wide level. It is believed that Crummock Water and Buttermere once formed a lake and this land bridge is the result of deposits during the last ice age. A short river which is called Buttermere Dubs, now connects the two lakes. The valley is completed in the southeast of Fleet Pike, in the north- east lies Grasmoor and southwest Mellbreak.

In addition to connecting with the higher-lying Buttermere and Loweswater Lake Park by Beck, the Beck Scale forms a substantial inflow. In the course of Scale Beck on the western shore of the lake is the Scale Force waterfall, which falsely applies with more than 50 meters height as the highest waterfall in the Lake District.

The outflow to the northwest is formed by the River Cocker, flowing at Cockermouth in the Derwent River, the outflow of Bassenthwaite Lake to flow into the Irish Sea.

Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, said to the landscape at Crummock Water: " No connection between mountains and lake has a closer relationship than here ."