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 Woods, Oregon only ran until 1931. Efforts were made to establish the form "Lake O' Woods" in the late 1930s, and a post office with that name was established in 1941 that ran intermittently until 1965. In 1961, the United States Board on Geographic Names ruled to return to the original name for the lake and the community. A post office was reestablished in 1970 with the name "Lake of the Woods"; it closed for good 1977. The lake, with Mount McLoughlin in the background, is a popular recreation area. Lake of the Woods, Oregon Lake of the Woods is an unincorporated