Haverthwaite
Haverthwaite is a small village and civil parish in the Furness region of Cumbria, England.
Haverthwaite is a small village and civil parish in the Furness region of Cumbria, England. It is also within the boundaries of the Lake District National Park. The village is 7 km or 4.5 miles NE of Ulverston and 5 km or 3 miles SW of the southern end of Windermere. It is near the tidal limit of the River Leven. In the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 728, which increased to 797 by 2011.
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Worth seeing in and around Haverthwaite
5 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.
- 01Newby Bridge
Newby Bridge is a hamlet in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is located several miles west of Grange-over-Sands and is on the River Leven, close to the southern end of Windermere.
3.6 km · small hamlet in the Lake District, Cumbria · Wikipedia - 02Holy Trinity Church, Colton
Holy Trinity Church is located to the east of the village of Colton, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.
3.7 km · church in Colton, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Bigland Barrow
Bigland Barrow is a hill in the English Lake District, near Backbarrow, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
1.8 km · hill in Haverthwaite, Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 04Lakeland Motor Museum
The Lakeland Motor Museum is a museum now located at Backbarrow, Cumbria, England which houses a collection of classic cars, motorcycles, bicycles, pedal cars and motoring related items and memorabilia and an exhibition dedicated to the land and water speed record activities of Sir Malcolm Campbell and his son Donald Campbell.
2 km · transport museum in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 05Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
The Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway is a 3.2-mile-long heritage railway in Cumbria, England.
2.6 km · heritage railway in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Haverthwaite
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 97 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 101 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 107 km
- Stations
- Haverthwaite railway station, 800 m · Newby Bridge Halt railway station, 3.5 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Haverthwaite108 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £13–17
- Liverpool → Haverthwaite93 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £13–17
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Haverthwaite99 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £13–17
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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 Haverthwaite
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 Haverthwaite. 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 Haverthwaite – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Haverthwaite
Haverthwaite is 57 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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