Whinlatter

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Whinlatter tops out at 517 m in Cumbria. It is listed among the 214 Wainwrights — the Lake District fells of Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides. It is one of 436 hills the Albion Guide maps in Cumbria. It stands inside the Lake District National Park.

Lord's Seat and Broom Fell are among the hills within 2 km. For arrivals by rail, Aspatria Station is 16.8 km to the north.

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More places to visit near Whinlatter

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Lake District

You’re inside itNational Park near Grasmere

England's highest mountains and deepest lakes — the fells that invented British hillwalking.

St Cuthbert's Church, Lorton

Church near Lorton

Vale-of-Lorton church near an ancient yew that Wordsworth wrote of, in green country between Cockermouth and Buttermere.

3.7 km W

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Bassenthwaite Lake

Lake near Bassenthwaite

Alone among the Cumbrian waters in being called a lake by name, a shallow sheet under Skiddaw where ospreys returned to breed.

4.8 km NE

The Pheasant Inn

Pub near Bassenthwaite

Coaching inn near Bassenthwaite with an old oak-panelled bar, set between the lake and the Whinlatter forest.

5.6 km N

Cumbria Way

Long-distance path

Through the Lake District's heart at valley level — Coniston, Langdale, Borrowdale and Caldbeck between the old market towns of Ulverston and Carlisle.

6.3 km E · Cumbria

Crosthwaite Church (St Kentigern's)

Church near Keswick

Keswick's ancient parish church with a Norman font and the grave of poet Robert Southey, below Skiddaw.

6.7 km E