Burneside
Burneside is a small village in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England.
Burneside is a small village in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. It is located to the north of Kendal and to the south east of Staveley, on the River Kent, just upstream from the confluence of the River Sprint. It has about 3,000 inhabitants. By the time of the 2011, Census Burneside had been transformed into an electoral ward only. The population of this ward was 1,888. The village is split between the civil parishes of Strickland Ketel, to the west of the River Kent, and Strickland Roger to the east.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Burneside
10 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.
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- 10St Thomas' Church, Kendal
Grade II listed church in Kendal, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria , England, UK
2.8 km · 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.
Getting to Burneside
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 90 km · Newcastle (NCL), 103 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 114 km
- Stations
- Kendal railway station, 3 km · Burneside railway station, 200 m
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Burneside100 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £11–15
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Burneside101 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £13–18
- Liverpool → Burneside106 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Burneside
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 Burneside. 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 Burneside – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Burneside
- Kendaltown and civil parish in Cumbria, England3.5 km
- Skelsmerghvillage in Cumbria, England, UK2.4 km
- Strickland Ketelcivil parish in Cumbria, England, UK1.3 km
- Strickland Rogercivil parish in Cumbria, England, UK1.8 km
- Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiteriggcivil parish in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England2.5 km
- Bowstonvillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom1.3 km