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The Windermere Way is a 45-mile circuit of Windermere, a lake in the English Lake District. The route is wholly within the Lake District National Park and takes in the summits of Wansfell , Loughrigg Fell and Gummer's How as well as passing through the towns of Ambleside and Windermere .
Bowness-on-Windermere: N/A: Circular route around Windermere in the Lake District. Witton Weavers Way: 33 53: Lancashire: Witton Park: N/A: Circular route around the West Pennine Moors, Blackburn and Darwen. Yorkshire Heritage Way: 42 68: West and North Yorkshire: Bradford: Ripon: Includes World Heritage Sites of Saltaire and Fountains Abbey ...
The walk to the summit is usually from the road at Astley's Plantation car park, itself at over 200 metres above sea level, and only 700 metres from the summit. Although short and easy by most standards, and popular with families, it has many of the characteristics of a walk in the higher Lakeland fells, with some (short) steep slopes, rocks to ...
The hill passes listed are routes within the Lake District National Park between two different valleys where a pathway is marked on the Ordnance Survey 1:50000 or 1:25000 map. Passes to be considered may be listed as "pass" or "hause" in the Ordnance Survey 1:50000 gazetteer provided also that a route crossing the ridge is marked on the map. [74]
The A592 going over Kirkstone Pass. The A592 road is a major route running north–south through the English Lake District.. The road connects Penrith and junction 40 of the M6 motorway), with Staveley at the southern tip of the lake, Windermere which is skirted by the A592 on its eastern bank; the road also follows the northern/western
The A591 as it passes between Ambleside and Grasmere. The A591 is a major road in Cumbria, which lies almost entirely within the Lake District national park. [1] A 2009 poll by satellite navigation firm Garmin named the stretch of the road between Windermere and Keswick as the most popular road in Britain.
The Dales Way is an 78.5-mile (126.3 km) long-distance footpath in Northern England, from (south-east to north-west) Ilkley, West Yorkshire, to Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria. [2] [3] [4] This walk was initially devised by the West Riding Ramblers' Association with the 'leading lights' being Colin Speakman and Tom Wilcock (Footpath Secretary). [5]
The Coast to Coast Walk is a long-distance footpath between the west and east coasts of Northern England, nominally 190-mile (306 km) long.Devised by Alfred Wainwright, it passes through three contrasting national parks: the Lake District National Park, the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the North York Moors National Park. [1]