Watermillock

Watermillock is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Matterdale, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. It is on the western shore of Ullswater, in the English Lake District. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 448. On 1 April 1934 the civil parish was merged into Matterdale.

==Toponymy== The name Watermillock is first attested in the early thirteenth century, in the form weþermeloc, with wethermelok first found in 1253. The present-day form, beginning with water, is first attested in 1541, as Wattermannock, alongside a 1568 instance of Waltermannock. The meloc element derives from the Common Brittonic word that would, if it were still found in modern Welsh, be spelled , meaning "place associated with the Mell Fells" (whose own name comes from the word that survives in modern Welsh as "bare"). The first element of the name originated as the word wether ("castrated male sheep"), though was adapted over time through folk-etymology both to the personal name Walter and to the noun water.