Lakes
Lakes is a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It covers the town of Ambleside, and the villages and hamlets of Clappersgate, Rydal, Grasmere, Troutbeck, Chapel Stile, Elterwater, Little Langdale and Waterhead.Photo: Val Vannet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 4,280 residents
- Description: civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Lakes (civil parish), Cumbria” and “Lakes, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount.
Dove Cottage
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of "plain living, but high thinking".
Rydal Mount
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rydal Mount is a house in the small village of Rydal, near Ambleside in the English Lake District. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth from 1813 to his death in 1850, and his sister, the author, poet, and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, until her death in 1855.
Allan Bank
Manor estate
Allan Bank is a grade II listed two-storey villa standing on high ground slightly to the west of Grasmere village in the heart of the Lake District. It is best known for being from 1808 to 1811 the home of William Wordsworth, but it was also occupied…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grasmere and Ambleside.
Grasmere
Photo: alancleaver, CC BY 2.0.
Grasmere is a lakeside village in the Lake District National Park, best known as the home to poet William Wordsworth.
Ambleside
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ambleside is a town in Cumbria. It is located at the head of Windermere, England’s largest lake, within the Lake District National Park.
Rydal
Village
Photo: Cmyk, Public domain.
Rydal is a village in Cumbria, England. It is a small cluster of houses, a hotel, and St Mary's Church, on the A591 road midway between Ambleside and Grasmere.
Lakes
- Category: civil parish
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, 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 Bengali to Welsh—“Lakes” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “লেকস”
- Cebuano: “Lakes (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Lakes”
- Chinese: “Lakes”
- Chinese: “雷克斯”
- Dutch: “Lakes”
- French: “Lakes”
- German: “Lakes”
- Gujarati: “લેક્સ”
- Irish: “Lakes”
- Japanese: “レークス”
- Kannada: “ಲೇಕ್ಸ್”
- Korean: “레이크스”
- Lithuanian: “Lakesas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lakes (Cumbria)”
- Polish: “Lakes”
- Portuguese: “Lakes”
- Russian: “Лейкс”
- Slovenian: “Lakes”
- Spanish: “Lakes”
- Swedish: “Lakes, Cumbria”
- Swedish: “Lakes”
- Tamil: “லெக்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “లేక్స్”
- Turkish: “Lakes, Cumbria”
- Urdu: “لیکس”
- Welsh: “Lakes, Cumbria”
- Welsh: “Lakes”
- “Lakes”
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