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Braystones

Braystones is a village in Cumbria, England, historically within Cumberland.

The place

Braystones is a village in Cumbria, England, historically within Cumberland. It is located on the Irish Sea coast, on edge of the Lake District National Park, around 38.6 miles (62.1 km) north of Barrow-in-Furness, 9.9 miles (15.9 km) south of Whitehaven and 50.8 miles (81.8 km) south west of Carlisle.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Braystones

2 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.

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

    2.5 km · church building in St. John Beckermet, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Braystones

Airports
Isle of Man (IOM), 80 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 130 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 136 km
Stations
Sellafield railway station, 2.4 km · Nethertown railway station, 3.4 km · Braystones railway station, 1.1 km
  • Castletown → Braystones
    83 km · quickest by road, 7h 37m · $19–26
  • Liverpool → Braystones
    120 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £17–23
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Braystones
    136 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Braystones

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 Braystones. 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

    199 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    225 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    332 km

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

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