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Dalston

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dalston

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.

  1. 01
    Rose Castle

    Rose Castle is a fortified house in the parish of Dalston, Cumbria, England. It was the residence of the bishops of Carlisle from 1230 to 2009, and has been a peace and reconciliation centre since it was sold by the Church Commissioners to the Rose Castle Foundation in 2016.

    4 km · fortified house in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dalston Hall

    Dalston Hall is a fortified country house at Dalston in Cumbria, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.6 km · 15th century house near Carlisle · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cardew House

    Cardew House is a country house at Cardew near Thursby in Cumbria. It is a Grade II listed building.

    2.9 km · house in Dalston, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cardew Lodge

    Cardew Lodge is a country house at Cardew near Thursby in Cumbria. It is a Grade II listed building.

    3.3 km · country house in Dalston, 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 Dalston

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 86 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 125 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 126 km
Stations
Dalston railway station, 500 m
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Dalston
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £10–13
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Dalston
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £15–20
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Dalston
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dalston

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 Dalston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA75 runs from Stranraer (for the Belfast and Larne ferries) via Dumfries.
  • Get inBuses no longer run along the Solway coast from Stranraer ferry port, you have to double back via Glasgow, Borders Bus X95 runs from Edinburgh along A7 via Galashiels, Selkirk, Hawick and Longtown.

From Wikivoyage: Carlisle, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    159 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    191 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    219 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    316 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dalston

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  • Baldwinholmevillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Buckabankvillage in Cumbria, England, UK1 km
  • Unthankvillage near Dalston, Cumbria, England, UK3.2 km
  • Cumdivockhamlet in Cumbria, England, UK2.9 km
  • Durdarhamlet in Cumbria, England, UK3.5 km