Crummock Water is a lake in the Lake District in Cumbria, England situated between Buttermere to the south and Loweswater to the north.

The River Cocker is considered to start at the north of the lake, before then heading into Lorton Vale.

The hill of Mellbreak runs the full length of the lake on its western side; as Alfred Wainwright described it ‘no pairing of hill and lake in Lakeland have a closer partnership than these’.

It is owned by the National Trust. Scale Force, the highest waterfall in the Lake District, feeds the lake.

A wild and rugged lake, it is most likely that, in previous ages, Buttermere and Crummock Water were a single body of water.

Due to its less accessible location, it remains a quiet, peaceful spot. This tranquility is preserved by a ban on water-sports, and although small boats are permitted they must be carried to the shore by hand.

Crummock Water is around twice as long as Buttermere and much deeper, and it is very easy to spend an entire day soaking up Crummock Water’s beauty by simply relaxing on the shores.

However, most visitors who come here do so in order to walk the surrounding fells, which include, on the western shore, the impressive Red Pike; the eastern shore rises sharply to the summit of Grasmoor.

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