Storrs Gate House

Storrs Gate House is a guest house in Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, England which is located on Longtail Hill. Storrs Gate House is situated nearby to Windermere Marina Village, as well as near the motorhome stopover Braithwaite Fold.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Belle Isle and Blackwell.

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.

Blackwell

Photo: GavinJA, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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 3,800 feet south of Storrs Gate House.

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 Bowness-on-Windermere and Storrs.

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.

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.