North West England
Cumbria
Westmorland & Furness

Windermere

Windermere is a town of 4,800 people in . Tourism is popular in the town, owing to its proximity to the lake and local scenery. Boats from the piers in Bowness sail around the lake, many calling at Ambleside or at Lakeside where there is a restored railway.
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  • Type: Town with 8,360 residents
  • Description: town in Cumbria, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Birthwaite” and “Windermere, Cumbria”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Orrest Head and Windermere railway station.

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Peter Trimming, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hill in the English on the eastern shores of . It is the subject of a chapter in Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, and the first fell he climbed.

Railway station
Photo: John Lomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Windermere, in , England. It is the northern terminus of the Windermere Branch Line, which runs from Oxenholme.

Museum
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a museum on the eastern shore of between and the town of Windermere in , England. It reopened in March 2019 after 12 years' closure and redevelopment work.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bowness-on-Windermere and Cleabarrow.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the main tourist centre for the of . 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.

Hamlet
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in , England. It gives its name to a small tarn in the area.

Village
Photo: Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the civil parish of Windermere and Bowness, in the district, in the ceremonial county of , England.

Windermere

Latitude
54.3795° or 54° 22′ 46″ north
Longitude
-2.9062° or 2° 54′ 22″ west
Population
8,360
Elevation
394 feet (120 metres)
Open location code
9C6V93HV+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27160066
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2633851
Wiki­data ID
Q119936
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Windermere” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويندرمير”
  • Asturian: “Windermere”
  • Basque: “Windermere (Cumbriako udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Windermere”
  • Bengali: “উইন্ডারমেরি”
  • Catalan: “Windermere”
  • Cebuano: “Windermere”
  • Chinese: “Windermere”
  • Chinese: “文德米尔”
  • Chinese: “文德米爾”
  • Chinese: “温德米尔”
  • Chinese: “溫德米爾”
  • Chinese: “溫達美”
  • Dutch: “Windermere”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويندرمير”
  • French: “Windermere”
  • German: “Windermere”
  • Gujarati: “વિન્ડરમેર”
  • Hebrew: “ווינדרמיר”
  • Hebrew: “וינדרמיר”
  • Indonesian: “Windermere, Cumbria (kota)”
  • Indonesian: “Windermere, Cumbria”
  • Irish: “Windermere, Cumbria”
  • Irish: “Windermere”
  • Italian: “Windermere”
  • Japanese: “ウィンダミア”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಂಡೀರ್”
  • Korean: “윈드미어”
  • Lithuanian: “Vindermeras”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Windermere (Cumbria)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Windermere”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Windermere”
  • Norwegian: “Windermere”
  • Persian: “ویندرمر، کامبریا”
  • Polish: “Windermere”
  • Portuguese: “Windermere”
  • Romanian: “Windermere, Cumbria”
  • Russian: “Виндермер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Windermere, Cumbria”
  • Spanish: “Windermere”
  • Swedish: “Windermere”
  • Tamil: “விண்டர்மேரே”
  • Telugu: “విన్డర్మర్”
  • Turkish: “Windermere, Cumbria (town)”
  • Turkish: “Windermere, Cumbria”
  • Urdu: “ویندیرمیری”
  • Vietnamese: “Windermere”
  • Welsh: “Windermere, Cumbria”
  • Welsh: “Windermere”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Windermere”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.