Bowness Bay
Bowness Bay is a bay in Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hill Top and Belle Isle.
Hill Top
Photo: Chris Brown, CC BY 2.0.
Hill Top is a 17th-century house in Near Sawrey near Hawkshead, in the English county of Cumbria. It is an example of Lakeland vernacular architecture with random stone walls and slate roof.
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.
Orrest Head
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Peter Trimming, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Orrest Head is a hill in the English Lake District on the eastern shores of Windermere. It is the subject of a chapter in Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, and the first fell he climbed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowness-on-Windermere and Hawkshead.
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.
Hawkshead
Photo: Nessy-Pic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hawkshead is a picturesque village in Lake District National Park. It is the smallest true town in Britain.
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.
Bowness Bay
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.3636° or 54° 21′ 49″ northLongitude
-2.9242° or 2° 55′ 27″ westOpen location code
9C6V937G+C8OpenStreetMap ID
node 5092373670OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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