Places to explore near Windermere StationWindermere

A lakeside museum of historic steamers and boats in a striking modern building on the Windermere shore.

1.5 km SW

A Bowness attraction bringing Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-Duck to life in walk-through recreations of the tales.

1.9 km SW

Lakeside resort where the Windermere steamers dock, its bustling front backed by galleries, tearooms and the World of Beatrix Potter.

1.9 km SW · Cumbria

Luxury country-house hotel dining between Windermere and Kendal.

2.9 km S

England's longest lake, a ribbon of water threaded with steamers and wooded islands between Ambleside and Newby Bridge.

3.2 km SW

A National Trust time-capsule yeoman's farmhouse in Troutbeck, kept by one family for four centuries with its carved oak and books intact.

3.6 km N

Strung along a hillside lane above its valley, a village of listed 17th-century farmhouses, old wells and the National Trust's Townend.

4.3 km N · Cumbria

Beatrix Potter's farmhouse and cottage garden.

5.3 km SW

Farming hamlet between Hawkshead and the Windermere ferry, home to Beatrix Potter's Hill Top and the Tower Bank Arms she drew.

5.3 km SW · Cumbria

A National Trust gallery in Hawkshead's old solicitor's office showing Beatrix Potter's original book illustrations.

6.2 km W

Whitewashed cottages, cobbled squares and stone archways in a car-free centre, with Wordsworth's old grammar school and a Beatrix Potter gallery.

6.2 km W · Cumbria

A 70-foot two-stage fall in wooded ravine a short walk behind Ambleside, reached by an easy railed path.

6.7 km NW

Slate-built town at the head of Windermere, its narrow streets full of outdoor shops, cafes and the tiny Bridge House straddling Stock Beck.

6.8 km NW · Cumbria

A tiny 17th-century two-room cottage built out over Stock Beck in the middle of Ambleside, now a National Trust icon.

7.1 km NW

Traditional Lake District village inn named by olive among the best country pubs.

7.3 km SW

A much-loved beauty spot near Coniston, an artificial tarn among wooded knolls with the Coniston fells rising beyond.

8.4 km W

A short, powerful fall where the combined Brathay and Langdale Beck force through the rocks at Skelwith Bridge.

8.7 km NW

A string of cascades tumbling down Glen Mary from Tarn Hows towards Yew Tree Tarn, an easy family walk.

9 km W

A pretty fall in the grounds of Rydal Hall, framed by a 17th-century viewing house said to be England's oldest.

9.1 km NW

A hillside beside Rydal church that Wordsworth planted with daffodils in memory of his daughter Dora, gold every spring.

9.1 km NW

A working forest between Coniston and Hawkshead threaded with walking and cycling trails and nearly a hundred outdoor sculptures.

9.2 km SW

William Wordsworth's home for his last 37 years, with the garden he laid out.

9.2 km NW

Tiny hamlet between Grasmere and Ambleside, gathered around Rydal Mount, Dora's Field and the wooded path to Rydal Cave.

9.2 km NW · Cumbria

A quarry mouth above Rydal Water big enough to swallow a house, its floor pool crossed on stepping stones — the void left by Loughrigg's slate men.

9.3 km NW

Reedy tarn and slate village below Langdale.

9.3 km NW

A steep, shapely Kentmere fell with a cluster of tall stone cairns on top, met by most walkers on the Kentmere Horseshoe

9.4 km N

Low fell with sublime Grasmere and Rydal views.

9.4 km NW

The smallest of the Langdale lakes, its reedy bays giving views to the Langdale Pikes above Elterwater village.

9.5 km NW

Between Grasmere and Ambleside, this small lake sits close to Rydal Mount, where Wordsworth spent his later years.

9.5 km NW

Remote 16th-century inn near the top of the Kirkstone Pass, one of the highest pubs in England, above Ambleside.

9.5 km N

The highest road pass in the Lakes open to traffic, climbing from Ullswater past England's third-highest inn.

9.9 km N

A wooded 40-foot fall in several stages on the Brathay in Little Langdale, one of the more easily reached falls.

9.9 km NW

The quieter of the two Langdale valleys, a green trough of old farms and slate byways leading to Blea Tarn and the passes.

9.9 km NW

One of Wainwright's Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

0.7 km N

The gentlest of the classic long walks — riverside paths along the Wharfe and the Dee from Ilkley to the shore of Windermere.

1.7 km SE · Cumbria, North Yorkshire & West Yorkshire

Bowness's oldest pub, a snug 17th-century warren of flagstones, beams and a barrel-topped bar tucked off the lakefront.

2 km SW

Troutbeck's valley church, its east window a glowing Arts and Crafts collaboration by Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and Morris.

4.2 km N