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Bassenthwaite

Bassenthwaite is a village and civil parish to the east of Bassenthwaite Lake in Cumbria, historically part of Cumberland, within the Lake District National Park, England.

Bassenthwaite
Bassenthwaite · Luke McKernan
The place

Bassenthwaite is a village and civil parish to the east of Bassenthwaite Lake in Cumbria, historically part of Cumberland, within the Lake District National Park, England.

According to the 2001 census it had a population of 412, increasing to 481 at the 2011 Census. There is a Church of England Church, St John's Bassenthwaite and a tiny Methodist chapel. The village contains many elements of the archetypal English village including a green, primary school and a stream that runs through it.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 104 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 114 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 127 km
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Bassenthwaite
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £12–16
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Bassenthwaite
    130 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · £18–24
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bassenthwaite
    144 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bassenthwaite

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 Bassenthwaite. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
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    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

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  2. 02
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    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

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  3. 03
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    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

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  4. 04
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    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

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