Hieros Gamos

Hieros Gamos is a work of art in Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, England. Hieros Gamos is situated nearby to the hotel The Ryebeck, as well as near the peak Brant Fell.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Brant Fell and Blackwell.

Brant Fell

Peak

Brant Fell is a hill in the English Lake District, near Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

Blackwell is a large house in the English Lake District, designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Baillie Scott. It was built in 1898–1900, as a holiday home for Sir Edward Holt, a wealthy Manchester brewer. Blackwell is situated 4,000 feet southwest of Hieros Gamos.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bowness-on-Windermere and Cleabarrow.

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.

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.

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.

Hieros Gamos

Type: Work of art
Artwork type: sculpture
Category: tourism
Location: Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.35203° or 54° 21′ 7″ north

Longitude

-2.91277° or 2° 54′ 46″ west

Open location code

9C6V932P+RV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6515098325

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=artwork

OpenStreetMap attribute

artwork_type=sculpture

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