Finsthwaite
Finsthwaite is a small village in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is located near the Furness Fells and Windermere.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Finsthwaite, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Peter’s Church and Stott Park Bobbin Mill.
St Peter’s Church
Church
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Peter's Church is in the village of Finsthwaite, 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.
Stott Park Bobbin Mill
Museum
Photo: Keith Wright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stott Park Bobbin Mill is a 19th-century bobbin mill and now a working museum located near Newby Bridge, Cumbria, England. Built in 1835, the mill was one of over 65 buildings in the Lake District which provided wooden bobbins to the weaving and spinning industry, primarily in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Lakes Aquarium
Public aquarium
Photo: Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Lakes Aquarium is an aquarium in the village of Lakeside on the southern shore of Windermere, Cumbria, England. It is one of the docking points of Windermere Lake Cruises and also at one end of the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lakeside and Newby Bridge.
Lakeside
Hamlet
Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lakeside is a village in Newby Bridge at the south end of Windermere, England. Now in the county of Cumbria, before county reorganisation of 1974 it was in Lancashire, as part of the region known as Furness.
Newby Bridge
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newby Bridge is a hamlet in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is located several miles west of Grange-over-Sands and is on the River Leven, close to the southern end of Windermere.
Crosslands
Hamlet
Photo: Bev Dickinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crosslands is a hamlet in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is located just to the northeast of Rusland in the civil parish of Colton. Crosslands is situated 2 miles northwest of Finsthwaite.
Finsthwaite
- Category: locality
- Location: Colton, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.28257° or 54° 16′ 57″ northLongitude
-2.9722° or 2° 58′ 20″ westElevation
285 feet (87 metres)Open location code
9C6V72MH+24OpenStreetMap ID
node 29670549OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Finsthwaite” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Finsthwaite”
- French: “Finsthwaite”
- Irish: “Finsthwaite”
- Polish: “Finsthwaite”
- Spanish: “Finsthwaite”
- Welsh: “Finsthwaite”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as New Close Wood and Town End.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Finsthwaite and Lakeside Village Hall and Golden Hill.
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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 “Finsthwaite”. Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.