Bowness on Windermere is a Town in the county of Cumbria.

Bowness on Windermere postcode: LA23 3BY

Retail in Bowness on Windermere

There are great places to visit near Bowness on Windermere including some great hills, hiking areas, villages, ancient sites, ruins, old mines, waterfalls, rivers and streams, lakes, woodlands, towns, mountains, castles, historic buildings, historic monuments, caves, bluebell woods, nature reserves, disused railway lines, airports and islands.

The area around Bowness on Windermere boasts some of the best hills including Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks.

Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell are some of Bowness on Windermere best hiking areas to visit near Bowness on Windermere.

Bowness on Windermere has some unmissable villages nearby like Eskdale, Coniston, Seatoller, Troutbeck, High Borrans, Kentmere, and Brigsteer.

Don't miss Hardknott Roman Fort, The Hawk, Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, Castlerigg Stone Circle, High Borrans Romano-British Settlement, Mayburgh Henge, and Gunnerkeld Stone Circle's ancient sites if visiting the area around Bowness on Windermere.

There are a number of ruins near Bowness on Windermere including Bonsor East Mine Workings, Bonsor Dressing Floors, Penny Rigg Copper Mill, Appletree Worth, Stephenson Ground Limekiln (ruin), Water Yeat Limekiln (ruin), and Hebblethwaite Hall Gill.

The area around Bowness on Windermere features a number of interesting old mines including Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Bowness on Windermere has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force.

There are a number of rivers and streams near Bowness on Windermere including River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere.

Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater are great places to visit near Bowness on Windermere if you like lakes.

The area around Bowness on Windermere boasts some of the best woodlands including Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood.

There are a several good towns in the Bowness on Windermere area like Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell are great places to visit near Bowness on Windermere if you like mountains.

Castles to visit near Bowness on Windermere include Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct are some of Bowness on Windermere best historic buildings to visit near Bowness on Windermere.

Places near Bowness on Windermere feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Fairy Steps.

Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel are some of Bowness on Windermere best caves to visit near Bowness on Windermere.

Bowness on Windermere has some unmissable bluebell woods nearby like Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Bowness on Windermere is near some unmissable nature reserves like Smardale Gill Nature Reserve,

Disused Railway Lines to visit near Bowness on Windermere include Smardale Gill Nature Reserve.

Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport are great places to visit near Bowness on Windermere if you like airports.

There are a number of islands near to Bowness on Windermere including Piel Island.

Bowness on Windermere History

There are some historic monuments around Bowness on Windermere:

• Round cairn 180m east of Rydal Beck
• Ambleside Roman fort, associated vicus and Roman road
• Round cairn 60m east of Hagg Gill
• Settlement on W slope of The Tongue, Troutbeck Park
• Round cairn 15m east of Hagg Gill
• Newby Bridge
• Stott Park bobbin mill, two mill ponds and site of Stott Park smithy
• Round cairn 200m south-south-west of Bluegill Fold
• Millrigg Romano-British enclosed hut circle settlement
• Northern round cairn on north end of The Tongue, Troutbeck Park
• Medieval shieling 640m north of Troutbeck Park Farm
• Prehistoric rock art, 150m south west of Nook End
• Tower of ruined church of St Catherine
• Round cairn 80m east of Hagg Gill
• Round cairn 75m east of Hagg Gill
• Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement and Romano-British farmstead north west of Tongue House Barn.
• Round cairn 250m south-south-west of Bluegill Fold
• Winster potash pit
• Romano-British settlement, 450m east of High Borrans
• Low Kingate concentric stone circle
• Southern round cairn on north end of The Tongue, Troutbeck Park
• Slight univallate hillfort on Allen Knott