Wast Water, in the Lake District (q.v.), Cumberland, 14 miles SSW. of Keswick, is a lake 3 miles long, mile wide, 204 feet above sea-level, and in places 260 feet deep.
Wast Water
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 563
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