Derwent Pencil Museum
The Derwent Pencil Museum is a museum dedicated to the manufacturing and history of pencils, located in Keswick, in the north-west of England.Photo: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Keswick, Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Cumberland Pencil Museum”, “Keswick Pencil Museum”, and “The Cumberland Pencil Museum”
- Address: Main Street, CA12 5NG
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Keswick Library and Moot Hall.
Keswick Library
Library
Photo: Frombowen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Keswick Library is situated 960 feet southeast of Derwent Pencil Museum.
Moot Hall
Public building
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Moot Hall is a prominent historic building situated at the southern end of Main Street in Keswick, Cumbria, England. It is Grade II* listed. Moot Hall is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Derwent Pencil Museum.
Keswick Museum
Museum
Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Keswick Museum is a local museum based in Keswick in the English Lake District, which exhibits aspects of the landscape, history and culture of the area. Keswick Museum is situated 1,900 feet east of Derwent Pencil Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Crosthwaite and Portinscale.
Great Crosthwaite
Suburb
Great Crosthwaite is a suburb of Keswick in the Lake District, in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England.
Portinscale
Village
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portinscale is a village in Cumbria, England, close to the western shore of Derwentwater in the Lake District National Park 1+1⁄2 miles from Keswick. For administrative purposes, Portinscale lies within the civil parish of Above Derwent, the unitary authority of Cumberland, and the ceremonial county of Cumbria.
Chestnut Hill
Suburb
Chestnut Hill is a suburb of Keswick, England, located along the A591 road. It contains the Nether Place Nursing Home and Claremont House, a 19th-century lodge which is an AA 4 diamond hotel.
Derwent Pencil Museum
- Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Keswick, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.60394° or 54° 36′ 14″ northLongitude
-3.14196° or 3° 8′ 31″ westOpen location code
9C6RJV35+H6OpenStreetMap ID
way 277905445OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q5193935
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Uzbek—“Derwent Pencil Museum” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Մատիտի թանգարան”
- Dutch: “Derwent Pencil Museum”
- Japanese: “ダーウェント・ペンシル・ミュージアム”
- Japanese: “ダーウェント鉛筆博物館”
- Russian: “Музей карандаша (Деруэнт)”
- Russian: “Музей карандаша”
- Uzbek: “Dervent qalamlar muzeyi”
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Highlights include Keswick Ministries and The Retro Zone.
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