Crossword-Solution: ELTERWATER 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

From the summit, which is indicated by a pile of large stones, eight different sheets of water are seen, viz., Windermere, Rydal, Grasmere, and Coniston Lakes, and Loughrigg, Easdale, Elterwater, and Blelham Tarns.

The stream you now approach is a branch of the Brathay, which rises on Wrynose and other hills round the head of Little Langdale, down which valley it flows, forming a fine fall at Colwith and at Skelwith, after joining the Great Langdale branch in Elterwater, and become a principal feeder of the “Regal Windermere;” you stand upon the verge of Lancashire, for this brook here divides it from Westmorland.

LITTLE LANGDALE—BLEA TARN—GREAT LANGDALE—LANGDALE PIKES—WALLEND—MILL-BECK—DUNGEON GHYLL—CHAPEL STILE—LANGDALE CHURCH-YARD—ELTERWATER—HACKETT—COLWITH AND COLWITH FORCE—TARN HOWS—FINALE.

And after crossing Colwith Bridge,— The narrow ways forbade all other Course but jostling in the hedge, Or following after one another,— In single file through Fletcher’s wood Away we rustled, splashed, and clattered— The foremost steed threw up the mud, Bespattering me, whilst mine bespattered The next behind, and in this way We kept up one continued spatter, And helter-skelter, clothed with clay, We galloped on through Elterwater.

Thus we have Wastwater, Ulleswater, Derwentwater, Lowwater, Brotherswater, Devokewater, Crummockwater, Elterwater, Leverswater, Smallwater, and Rydalwater.