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”, “Windermere, Cumbria”, and “ווינדרמיר”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Windermere railway station and Orrest Head.

Railway station
Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Windermere, in , England.

Scenic viewpoint
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is a hill in the English on the eastern shores of .

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bowness-on-Windermere and Troutbeck Bridge.

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is the main tourist centre for…

Village
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is a village in the civil parish…

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in , 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: “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: “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”
  • Ladin: “Windermere”
  • Lithuanian: “Vindermeras”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Windermere (Cumbria)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Windermere”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Windermere”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Windermere”
  • Norwegian: “Windermere”
  • Persian: “ویندرمر، کامبریا”
  • Persian: “ویندرمر”
  • 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: “ونڈرمیئر، کامبریا (قصبہ)”
  • Urdu: “ونڈرمیئر، کامبریا”
  • Vietnamese: “Windermere”
  • Welsh: “Windermere, Cumbria”
  • Welsh: “Windermere”
  • “Windermere”

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