Gray's Journal Entry: ‘Lowdore Waterfall is generally claimed one of the most striking objects of the kind in this country; its accompaniments are uncommonly picturesque and grand. These indeed compose of themslves a scene which cannot but interest the spectator, even when the fall of the water, which depends upon the state of the weather, is inconsiderable. The stupendous craggs between which the torrent precipitates itself broken into the boldest forms, are shagged with trees hanging everywhere in the most fantastic shapes, from the fissures of the rock. The height of the Fall itself Mr Gray conjectures to be about two hundred feet. At some distance above the Fall the stream proceeds from a lake about a mile in circumference. To this sequestered spot travellers are seldom conducted, though they might perhaps think themselves amply recompensed for their trouble, by a sight of lake and village near it called Wawtenleth [sic]. The point from whence this view is taken is a little to the right of the road leading from Keswick into Borrowdale, near the side of Derwentwater, where it forms a small bay.’