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.

Cartmel Fell, White Pike (Seathwaite), The Knott, Broughton Moor, Catbells, Orrest Head, and Haystacks are some of Bowness on Windermere best hills to visit near Bowness on Windermere.

Hiking Areas to visit near Bowness on Windermere include Cartmel Fell, Coniston Coppermines Valley, Borrowdale, Styhead Tarn, Troutbeck, Orrest Head, and Wild Boar Fell.

Bowness on Windermere's best nearby villages can be found at 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.

The area around Bowness on Windermere features a number of interesting ruins 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.

There are a several good old mines in the Bowness on Windermere area like Penny Rigg Quarry Adit, Three Kings Mine, Tilberthwaite Gill Head Waterfall Level, Horse Crag Quarry, Tilberthwaite Deep Level Adit, Cathedral Quarry, and Parrock Quarry.

Don't miss Tilberthwaite Gill, Rydal Falls, Hebblethwaite Hall Gill, Styhead Gill Waterfalls, Taylorgill Force, Aira Force, and Hell Gill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Bowness on Windermere.

River Lickle, Appletree Worth Beck, Styhead Gill, Crowdundle Beck, Aira Beck, Hell Gill, and River Kent at Kentmere are some of Bowness on Windermere best rivers and streams to visit near Bowness on Windermere.

Bowness on Windermere's best nearby lakes can be found at Tarn Hows, Thirlmere Reservoir, Derwentwater, Styhead Tarn, Windermere, Wastwater, and Ullswater.

Don't miss Broughton Moor, Brigsteer Park, Cow Close Wood, Jeffy Knotts Wood, and Grubbins Wood's woodlands if visiting the area around Bowness on Windermere.

Towns to visit near Bowness on Windermere include Sedbergh, Bowness On Windermere, Ulverston, Penrith, Kendal, Ambleside, and Kirkby Stephen.

Bowness on Windermere has some unmissable mountains nearby like Scafell, Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Skiddaw, Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike [Caudale Moor], Place Fell, and Wild Boar Fell.

The area around Bowness on Windermere boasts some of the best castles including Brough Castle, Lowther Castle, Pendragon Castle, Lammerside Castle, Kendal Castle, Sizergh Castle, and Castlesteads (Lowther).

Bowness on Windermere has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like Acorn Bank, Acorn Bank Watermill, Church of St Peter Askham, St Michael’s Church at Lowther, Lowther Mausoleum, Askham Hall, and Smardale Gill Viaduct.

There are a number of historic monuments near to Bowness on Windermere including Fairy Steps.

Don't miss Cathedral Quarry, Fairies Cave, Holy Well Cave, and Buttermere Tunnel's caves if visiting the area around Bowness on Windermere.

The area around Bowness on Windermere boasts some of the best bluebell woods including Cow Close Wood, and Jeffy Knotts Wood.

Don't miss Smardale Gill Nature Reserve's nature reserves if visiting the area around Bowness on Windermere.

Smardale Gill Nature Reserve is one of Bowness on Windermere's best, nearby disused railway lines to visit in Bowness on Windermere.

Bowness on Windermere has some unmissable airports nearby like Barrow/Walney Island Airport, and Carlisle Lake District Airport.

The area close to Bowness on Windermere boasts some of the best islands including Piel Island.

Bowness on Windermere History

There are some historic monuments around Bowness on Windermere:

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