Beck Head
Beck Head is a village in Cumbria, England.
Beck Head is a village in Cumbria, England.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Beck Head
4 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.
- 01Castle Head Field Centre
Castle Head is a country house surrounded by 20 acres of grounds near to the seaside resort of Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria, England. It is run by Field Studies Council, and is a Grade II listed building.
3.7 km · grade II listed English country house in Grange-over-Sands, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria , England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Newton Fell
Newton Fell is a hill in the English Lake District near High Newton, south east of Newby Bridge, Cumbria. It lies to the north east of the A590 road.
3.5 km · hill in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 03St Paul's Church
St Paul's Church is in the village of Witherslack, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Kendal, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.
1.4 km · church in Witherslack, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Whitbarrow
Whitbarrow is a hill in Cumbria, England, designated a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest and national nature reserve, forming part of the Morecambe Bay Pavements Special Area of Conservation due to its supporting some of the best European examples of natural limestone habitats. Also known as Whitbarrow Scar, the hill lies about 9 kilometres southwest of Kendal, just north of the A590 road, close to the village of Witherslack.
4 km · hill in Cumbria, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Beck Head
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 89 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 101 km · Manchester (MAN), 106 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Beck Head95 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–16
- Liverpool → Beck Head121 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £18–23
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Beck Head129 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £17–23
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Beck Head
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 Beck Head. 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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If you know how people move in Beck Head – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Beck Head
Beck Head is 54 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Lindalevillage in Cumbria, England, UK3.5 km
- Lindale and Newton-in-Cartmelcivil parish in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England3.2 km
- Witherslack, Meathop and Ulphacivil parish in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England800 m
- High Newtonvillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom4 km
- Meathopvillage in Cumbria, England2.2 km
- Low Newtonhamlet in Cumbria, England, UK3.6 km