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Beckermet

Beckermet is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, between Egremont and Seascale.

Beckermet
Beckermet · Joe deSousa
The place

Beckermet is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, between Egremont and Seascale. The parish had a population of 1,619 in the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Beckermet

7 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
    Sellafield

    Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning.

    3.5 km · Nuclear reprocessing and waste treatment and storage site in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Egremont Castle

    Egremont Castle is located in the town of Egremont, Cumbria.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed castle in Egremont, Cumberland, Cumbria , England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Calder Abbey

    Calder Abbey in Cumbria was a Savigniac monastery founded in 1134 by Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester, and moved to this site following a refoundation in 1142. It became Cistercian in 1148.

    3.3 km · Savigniac monastery in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Bridget's Church, Calder Bridge

    St Bridget's Church is on the north side of the A595 road in the village of Calder Bridge, near Beckermet, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle.

    2.5 km · church in Ponsonby, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Haile Church

    Haile Parish Church is near Haile, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle.

    2.5 km · church building in Haile, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mary and St Michael

    St Mary & St Michael is in Egremont, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle.

    3.9 km · church building in Egremont, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St John the Baptist

    St John, Beckermet, is in Beckermet, Cumbria, England. It is an Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle.

    100 m · church building in St. John Beckermet, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Beckermet

Airports
Isle of Man (IOM), 82 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 131 km · Newcastle (NCL), 134 km
Stations
Sellafield railway station, 3.2 km · Nethertown railway station, 3.5 km · Braystones railway station, 1.9 km
  • Liverpool → Beckermet
    121 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £17–23
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Beckermet
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £16–21
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Beckermet
    136 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · £21–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Beckermet

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 Beckermet. 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
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    163 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    198 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    224 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    331 km

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

Around it

Next door to Beckermet

  • Ponsonbyvillage and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK3.8 km
  • Hailevillage and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK2.5 km
  • Lowside Quartercivil parish in Cumbria, UK1.1 km
  • Thornhillvillage in Cumbria, England, United Kingdom2.3 km
  • Braystonesvillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom1.3 km
  • Blackbeckvillage in Cumbria, England, UK1.3 km