Highlands Wood

Highlands Wood is a forest in Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, England. Highlands Wood is situated nearby to the village Troutbeck Bridge, as well as near the neighborhood Low Ibbotsholme.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Windermere railway station and Orrest Head.

Windermere railway station

Railway station

Photo: John Lomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Windermere railway station serves the town of Windermere, in Cumbria, England. It is the northern terminus of the Windermere Branch Line, which runs from Oxenholme.

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.

Townend

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Townend is a 17th-century house in Troutbeck, in the civil parish of Lakes, north of Windermere, Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bowness-on-Windermere and Ambleside.

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.