Belle Isle
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Islet
- Description: island on Windermere in the Lake District, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Great Island”, “Long Holme”, and “Longholm”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Martin’s Church, Bowness-on-Windermere and Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories.
St Martin’s Church, Bowness-on-Windermere
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Martin's Church stands in the centre of the town of Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.
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.
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 Storrs.
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.
Storrs
Hamlet
Storrs is a hamlet in the civil parish of Windermere and Bowness, in the Westmorland and Furness district of the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England.
Cleabarrow
Hamlet
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cleabarrow is a hamlet in Cumbria, England. It gives its name to a small tarn in the area. Cleabarrow is situated 1½ miles east of Belle Isle.
Belle Isle
- Categories: lake island, locality, and landform
- Location: Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.36151° or 54° 21′ 41″ northLongitude
-2.93447° or 2° 56′ 4″ westElevation
151 feet (46 metres)Open location code
9C6V9368+J6OpenStreetMap ID
way 52490113OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Belle Isle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Belle Isle”
- Dutch: “Belle Isle”
- German: “Belle Isle”
- Italian: “Belle Isle”
- Italian: “Great Island”
- Italian: “Long Holme”
- Italian: “Longholm”
- Japanese: “ベルアイル”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belle Isle i Windermere”
- Swedish: “Belle Isle, Cumbria”
- Swedish: “Belle Isle”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Belle Isle”. Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.