Distington
Distington is a large village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Workington and 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Whitehaven.
Distington is a large village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Workington and 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Whitehaven. Historically a part of Cumberland, the civil parish includes the nearby settlements of Common End, Gilgarran and Pica. The parish had a population of 2,247 in the 2001 census, increasing slightly to 2,256 at the 2011 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Distington
3 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 km · 172 m hill near Whitehaven in the Lake District · Wikipedia - 02Moresby 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.
3.7 km · Grade I listed English country house in Parton, Cumberland, Cumbria , England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Energy Coast UTC
Energy Coast is a University Technical College on the outskirts of Workington, Cumbria that opened in September 2014 for students of ages 14–19. The "Energy Coast" is the coastal region between Silloth and Barrow-in-Furness, it includes the Sellafield nuclear power site and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as well as wind farms at Walney Island and Robin Rigg.
2.1 km · college in Cumbria, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Distington
- Airports
- Isle of Man (IOM), 91 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 120 km · Newcastle (NCL), 128 km
- Stations
- Harrington railway station, 2.2 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Distington121 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · £19–25
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Distington130 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £14–19
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Distington157 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · £22–29
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No local-transport research exists yet for Distington
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 Distington. 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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Next door to Distington
- Lowcavillage in Cumberland, Cumbria, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Harringtontown in Cumbria, England2.1 km
- Winscalessettlement and civil parish in Allerdale, Cumbria, England3.3 km
- Common Endhamlet in Cumbria, United Kingdom1.5 km