Bransty
Bransty is a suburb of Whitehaven in Cumbria, England.
Bransty is a suburb of Whitehaven in Cumbria, England. It had a population of 5,069 at the 2021 Census. It is an average sized housing estate. The centre of it, The Green, is a meeting place for children to play football and games. It contains three forests, built around North Road and South View Road and Earls Road. Bransty School is on the top half of Bransty. It is a Primary school which contains roughly 200 pupils.
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Worth seeing in and around Bransty
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.
- 01Watch Hill
Watch Hill is a small hill lying on the western fringe of the Lake District in England, north east of Whitehaven. It should not be confused with another Watch Hill some 19 kilometres to the north-east, near Cockermouth, which is classified as a Marilyn and is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells.
3.9 km · 172 m hill near Whitehaven in the Lake District · Wikipedia - 02St James' Church, Whitehaven
St James' Church is in High Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, at the crossing with the top of Queen Street. It stands in an elevated position overlooking the town.
400 m · church in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Moresby Hall
Moresby Hall is a former manor house and hotel in Parton, Cumbria, England, overlooking the Cumbrian Fells, and just to the north of the village of Moresby. The hall is located south of Lowca, off the A595 on the A66-595, two miles north of Whitehaven and 12 miles south-west of Cockermouth.
2.8 km · Grade I listed English country house in Parton, Cumberland, Cumbria , England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Keekle Viaduct
Keekle Viaduct is a former railway viaduct near Keekle, Cumbria, England.
3.8 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Whitehaven Town Hall
Whitehaven Town Hall is a municipal building in Duke Street in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England. The building, which was the headquarters of Whitehaven Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.
400 m · municipal building in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Begh's Church, Whitehaven
St Begh's Church or St Begh's Priory Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England. It was built from 1865 to 1868 and designed by E. W. Pugin in the Gothic Revival style.
900 m · church building in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bransty
- Airports
- Isle of Man (IOM), 85 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 123 km · Newcastle (NCL), 133 km
- Stations
- Whitehaven, 400 m · Whitehaven railway station, 400 m · Parton railway station, 2.3 km · Corkickle railway station, 1 km
- Castletown → Bransty88 km · quickest by road, 7h 49m · $22–31
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Bransty123 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · £19–26
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Bransty135 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bransty
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 Bransty. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inGet off at {{marker|type |wikidata By bike By ferry=== There are no scheduled ferry services to/from Workington.
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