| Windermere is a town of about 2300 population within | | | | deep. Ribbon lakes were formed during the last ice |
| the Lake District National Park in the North West | | | | age and are canyons with a river at either end. A |
| England shire county of Cumbria. Windermere town | | | | glacier would have dug a glacial trough through a vein |
| center is half a mile from Lake Windermere, England's | | | | of soft rock, creating a canyon surrounded by the |
| largest fresh water natural lake. Lake Windermere has | | | | harder rock of the mountains. Boats from the piers in |
| been summer and holidays cottage country since for | | | | Bowness sail around the lake. There are 18 islands in |
| the middle of the 19th century when a railway branch | | | | the lake, the largest of 40 acres and privately owned. |
| line gave the city-folk from central England access to | | | | Two other villages are along the lake shoe, Ambleside |
| the area's beauty. | | | | and Lakeside. Sailing from one to the other is an |
| The town of Windermere does not touch Lake | | | | excellent way to while away a summer's day. |
| Windermere. But it has grown together with lakeside | | | | Since the 1950s there have been isolated reports of |
| town of Bowness-on-Windermere. The odd combined | | | | somethin odd in Lake Windermere. The story, |
| town retains two distinct town centres. The | | | | documented by Centre for Fortean Zoology, was not |
| Windermere railway station continues in operation | | | | much known until 2006, when a man and wife |
| today. | | | | reported seeing something large swimming about 30 |
| While there are a many cultural attractions in the | | | | yards from shore. This focused local attention on the |
| Wingemere area, none can match the beauty of the | | | | Lake and later in the year a photographer named |
| natural environment. The mountains of Cumbria | | | | Linden Adams took some photos that were picked up |
| surround the lake basin, at the center of which lies the | | | | by wire services and cable news network. |
| ten and half mile long ribbon lake: long, narrow and | | | | |