Lake Windermere
Windermere is a ribbon lake in Cumbria, England. It is within the Lake District and is the largest lake in England by length, area, and volume, although considerably smaller than the largest Scottish lochs and Northern Irish loughs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: largest natural lake in England
- Also known as: “lake Windermere” and “Windermere”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories and Belle Isle.
Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories
Museum
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories is a museum on the eastern shore of Windermere between Bowness-on-Windermere and the town of Windermere in Cumbria, England. It reopened in March 2019 after 12 years' closure and redevelopment work.
Belle Isle
Islet
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belle Isle is the largest of 18 islands on Windermere, a mere in the English Lake District, and the only one ever to have been inhabited. It is 1 km in length.
Claife Heights
Peak
Photo: Stephen Dawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Claife Heights is an upland area in the Lake District, near to Windermere in Cumbria, England. It has a topographic prominence of 177 metres so is classified as a Marilyn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowness-on-Windermere and Windermere.
Bowness-on-Windermere
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bowness-on-Windermere is the main tourist centre for the South Lakes area of Lake District National Park. It sits on the shore of Windermere lake within the boundaries of the historic County of Westmorland. In 2011, it had about 3,800 permanent residents.
Windermere
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Windermere is a town of 4,800 people in Cumbria. Tourism is popular in the town, owing to its proximity to the lake and local scenery. Boats from the piers in Bowness sail around the lake, many calling at Ambleside or at Lakeside where there is a restored railway.
Troutbeck Bridge
Village
Photo: Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Troutbeck Bridge is a village in the civil parish of Windermere and Bowness, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. Troutbeck Bridge is situated 1½ miles northeast of Lake Windermere.
Lake Windermere
- Categories: mere and body of water
- Location: Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Lake Windermere” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويندرمير”
- Basque: “Windermere”
- Breton: “Windermere”
- Catalan: “Windermere”
- Cebuano: “Windermere (lanaw)”
- Cebuano: “Windermere”
- Chinese: “溫德米爾”
- Chinese: “溫德米爾湖”
- Chinese: “溫達美湖”
- Chuvash: “Уиндермир”
- Croatian: “Windermere”
- Czech: “Windermere”
- Danish: “Windermere”
- Dutch: “Windermere”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره ويندرمير”
- Finnish: “Windermere”
- French: “lac Windermere”
- French: “Lac Windermere”
- German: “Windermere”
- Hebrew: “אגם ווינדמייר”
- Hebrew: “אגם וינדמייר”
- Icelandic: “Windermere”
- Indonesian: “Danau Windermere”
- Indonesian: “Windermere”
- Irish: “Windermere, Loch”
- Irish: “Windermere”
- Italian: “Windermere”
- Japanese: “ウィンダーミア湖”
- Japanese: “ウィンダミア湖”
- Japanese: “ウインドミア”
- Macedonian: “Виндермир”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Windermere”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Windermere”
- Norwegian: “Windermere”
- Persian: “ویندرمر”
- Polish: “Windermere”
- Russian: “Уиндермир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Windermere”
- Slovenian: “jezero Windermere, Anglija”
- Spanish: “Windermere”
- Swedish: “Windermere”
- Turkish: “Windermere”
- Ukrainian: “Віндемір”
- Ukrainian: “Віндермір”
- Venetian: “Windermere”
- Welsh: “Windermere”
- Western Panjabi: “ونڈرمیئر”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rough Holme and Tuft Rock.
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