Blackwell
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Grade I listed historic house museum in South Lakeland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Blackwell Arts and Crafts House” and “Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House”
- Address: Bowness-on-Windermere, LA23 3JT
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Storrs Hall and Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club.
Storrs Hall
Hotel
Photo: FFNick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Storrs Hall is a hotel on the banks of Windermere in Storrs in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. The hotel, a Grade II* listed Georgian mansion, is also home to the National Trust-owned folly the "Temple" on the end of a stone jetty on Windermere. Storrs Hall is situated 3,000 feet southwest of Blackwell.
Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club
Sports venue
The Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club is a British boating club based at Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria. The Club was founded in 1925 and is the oldest motor boat racing club in the world. Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club is situated 1 mile southwest of 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Storrs and Winster.
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.
Winster
Village
Photo: Raymond Knapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Winster is a village in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, in North West England. Historically within the county of Westmorland, it is situated less than two miles east of Windermere, England's largest natural lake.
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.
Blackwell
- Categories: historic house museum, English country house, independent museum, house, building, and tourism
- Location: Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.34313° or 54° 20′ 35″ northLongitude
-2.92364° or 2° 55′ 25″ westLevels
2Open location code
9C6V83VG+6GOpenStreetMap ID
way 170674914OpenStreetMap feature
building=houseOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q4923584
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