Backbarrow
Backbarrow is a village in the Lake District National Park in England.
Backbarrow is a village in the Lake District National Park in England. It lies on the River Leven about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Ulverston in Furness in the county of Cumbria.
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Worth seeing in and around Backbarrow
10 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.
- 01Lakes Aquarium
The Lakes Aquarium is an aquarium in the village of Lakeside on the southern shore of Windermere, Cumbria, England. It is one of the docking points of Windermere Lake Cruises and also at one end of the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway.
3.4 km · aquarium on the shore of Windermere, Cumbria · Wikipedia - 02Stott Park Bobbin Mill
Stott Park Bobbin Mill is a 19th-century bobbin mill and now a working museum located near Newby Bridge, Cumbria, England. Built in 1835, the mill was one of over 65 buildings in the Lake District which provided wooden bobbins to the weaving and spinning industry, primarily in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
3.7 km · 19th-century bobbin mill museum; at Newby Bridge, Cumbria, England. · Wikipedia - 03Newby Bridge
Newby Bridge is a hamlet in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is located several miles west of Grange-over-Sands and is on the River Leven, close to the southern end of Windermere.
2 km · small hamlet in the Lake District, Cumbria · Wikipedia - 04Bigland Barrow
Bigland Barrow is a hill in the English Lake District, near Backbarrow, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
1.3 km · hill in Haverthwaite, Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 05Fell Foot Park
Fell Foot Park is a country park situated at the southern end of Windermere in Cumbria, the largest lake in England. It is north of Newby Bridge in the civil parish of Staveley-in-Cartmel, in Westmorland and Furness.
3.3 km · Country park near Windermere, Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 06Lakeland Motor Museum
The Lakeland Motor Museum is a museum now located at Backbarrow, Cumbria, England which houses a collection of classic cars, motorcycles, bicycles, pedal cars and motoring related items and memorabilia and an exhibition dedicated to the land and water speed record activities of Sir Malcolm Campbell and his son Donald Campbell.
400 m · transport museum in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 07Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
The Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway is a 3.2-mile-long heritage railway in Cumbria, England.
900 m · heritage railway in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 08Holy Trinity Church, Colton
Holy Trinity Church is located to the east of the village of Colton, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.
3.8 km · church in Colton, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St Peter's Church, Finsthwaite
St Peter's Church is in the village of Finsthwaite, 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.
3.2 km · church in South Lakeland, UK · Wikipedia - 10Staveley Fell
Staveley Fell is an upland area in the English Lake District, near Staveley-in-Cartmel, Cumbria, east of the southern end of Windermere. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, but he admits that: "Strictly it has no name, not even locally, being referred to on Ordnance maps as Astley's and Chapel House Plantations, which are new forests severely encroaching upon it".
3.9 km · hill in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Backbarrow
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 97 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 103 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 108 km
- Stations
- Haverthwaite railway station, 900 m · Lakeside railway station, 3.4 km · Newby Bridge Halt railway station, 1.9 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Backbarrow107 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £13–17
- Liverpool → Backbarrow94 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £13–17
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Backbarrow99 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Backbarrow
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 Backbarrow. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAlternatively, buses are available every 20 minutes from the railway station to the ferry jetty.
- Get inA car ferry operates daily (except 25, 26 Dec) from Far Sawrey, running M-Sa approximately every 20 minutes between 6:50AM and 8:50PM, starting Su at 9:10AM on, and with later sailings in summer.
- Get aroundThe main attraction of Bowness-on-Windermere is the ferry.
- Get aroundThe ferry trip is an experience of a lifetime, offering a fabulous ride across a wonderful lake.
- Get aroundSome people prefer to return by ferry, others move ahead from Ambleside to other places such as Rydal Mount, Grasmere, or Keswick, or even return from Ambleside to either Bowness-on-Windermere or Windermere town by bus or taxi.
From Wikivoyage: Bowness-on-Windermere, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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Next door to Backbarrow
Backbarrow is 58 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Haverthwaitevillage and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK1.7 km
- Staveley-in-Cartmelvillage and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK2.8 km
- Bouthvillage in Cumbria, England, UK2.7 km
- Lakesidevillage in Cumbria, England, UK3.4 km
- Finsthwaitevillage in Cumbria, England, UK3.2 km
- Crosslandshamlet in Cumbria, England, UK4 km