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Allithwaite

Allithwaite is a village in Cumbria, England, located roughly 1.2 miles (1.9 km) west of Grange-over-Sands.

Allithwaite
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The place

Allithwaite is a village in Cumbria, England, located roughly 1.2 miles (1.9 km) west of Grange-over-Sands. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, Allithwaite, and the village of Cartmel situated to the north, are part of the civil parish of Allithwaite and Cartmel. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,758, increasing to 1,831 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Allithwaite

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Holker Hall

    Holker Hall is a privately owned country house located about 2 km to the south-west of the village of Cartmel in the ceremonial county of Cumbria and historic county of Lancashire, England. It is "the grandest [building] of its date in Lancashire...by the best architects then living in the county." The building dates from the 16th century, with alterations, additions, and rebuilding in the 18th and 19th centuries.

    3 km · Country house in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St John the Baptist's Church, Flookburgh

    St John the Baptist's Church is in Station Road in the village of Flookburgh, on the Cartmel Peninsula in Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.

    2.3 km · church in South Lakeland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Paul Parish Church, Grange-over-Sands

    St Paul's Church is in Crown Hill, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.

    2.4 km · grade II listed church in Grange-over-Sands, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria , England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church, Allithwaite

    St Mary's Church is in the village of Allithwaite, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.

    400 m · grade II listed church in Lower Allithwaite, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria , England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Aynsome Manor

    Aynsome Manor is a country house hotel in Cartmel, Cumbria, northwestern England, in the Lake District. It is set in the Vale of Cartmel, with views of a Norman priory, meadows and woods to the south.

    3.3 km · country house hotel in Broughton East, South Lakeland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Cartmel Priory Gatehouse

    Cartmel Priory Gatehouse is a medieval building located at Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, England. It is listed Grade II* and is part of a scheduled monument.

    2.5 km · Medieval building in Cartmel, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Allithwaite

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 91 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 94 km · Manchester (MAN), 102 km
Stations
Cark and Cartmel railway station, 2.2 km · Grange-over-Sands railway station, 3 km · Kents Bank railway station, 1.3 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Allithwaite
    101 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £12–16
  • Liverpool → Allithwaite
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–17
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Allithwaite
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Allithwaite

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Allithwaite. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA few trains continue south to Heysham Port to meet the ferries.
  • Get inIsle of Man car ferries sail between Heysham and Douglas Isle of Man, taking four hours.

From Wikivoyage: Morecambe, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    209 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    244 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    271 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    354 km
  5. 05
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    355 km

If you know how people move in Allithwaite – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Allithwaite

Allithwaite is 49 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Grange-over-Sandstown and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK1.9 km
  • Cartmelvillage in South Lakeland, Cumbria, UK2.2 km
  • Broughton Eastcivil parish in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England3.9 km
  • Lower Holkercivil parish in Cumbria, UK2.8 km
  • Flookburghvillage in Cumbria (formerly Lancashire), England2.2 km
  • Carkvillage in Cumbria, England, UK2.4 km