Barf (Lake District) Barf (Lake District) Barf is a fell in the north-western Lake District in Cumbria, UK. It stands on the south-western shore of Bassenthwaite Lake. Barf is well known for a whitewashed pillar of rock on the lower slopes, the so-called "Bishop's Rock" or "Bishop of Barf". The name is thought to be a derivative of "burgh". Barf is properly an eastern shoulder of Lord's Seat, but was accorded the status of a separate fell by Alfred Wainwright in his influential "Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells". The eastern face is a steep wall of scree, falling to the Keswick to
Lake of the Idols "Lago della Ciliegeta" (eng. "Cherry Grove Lake"), named for the cherry groves that grew around the lake. The name "Lago degli Idoli" (eng. "Lake of the Idols") was applied after 1838 and refers to the Etruscan bronze statuettes found in the lake (see History). Another name for the lake is "Buca del Tesoro" (eng. "Treasure Hole"). According to Alfredo Bresciani, the lake formed approximately 6,000 years ago (4th millennia BCE), based on radiocarbon dating and dendrochronology testing done on the lake. The lake was used in ancient times by the Etruscans. They viewed it as a "holy spring of the