Skybarrow Crag, Ullswater

This area, on the shore of Ullswater, is likely where Wordsworth "stole" the boat in the famous scene described in Book 1 of the Prelude.  The "rocky steep" overhanging the boat is likely to have been Skybarrow Crag, and the cliff Wordsworth saw rearing up behind it was likely Glenridding Dodd.

Click here to go to the "Wordsworth: Poetry and Place" tool and see a "reenactment" of the boat stealing by myself and Nicole Bouchard (Baylor English PhD student).