The Ryebeck

The Ryebeck is a hotel in Windermere, Westmorland and Furness, England, which is located on Kendal Road. The Ryebeck is situated near the peak Barker Knott, as well as near Windermere Marina Village.

Type: Hotel
Description: country house at Bowness on Windermere, England; latterly a hotel
Also known as: “Fayrer Holme”, “Ryebeck, The”, and “The Ryebeck Hotel”
Address: Kendal Road, Bowness-on-Windermere, LA23 3JP

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Blackwell and Brant Fell.

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 2,400 feet south of The Ryebeck.

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.

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 Storrs and Bowness-on-Windermere.

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.

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.