Loweswater

Worth seeing in and around Loweswater

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.

1. 01
   Blake Fell

   Blake Fell is a hill in the Western part of the English Lake District. It is the highest point of the Loweswater Fells, an area of low grassy hills with steep sides overlooking the lake of Loweswater.

   2.5 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Burnbank Fell

   Burnbank Fell is a small hill in the west of the English Lake District. It is the most westerly of the Loweswater Fells, a group of low grassy hills just south of Loweswater.

   1.5 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Gavel Fell

   Gavel Fell is a hill in the English Lake District. Centremost of the five Loweswater Fells in the western part of the District, it stands between Hen Comb and Blake Fell.

   3.4 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Cogra Moss

   Cogra Moss is a shallow reservoir to the east of the village of Lamplugh on the western edge of the English Lake District. It was created by the damming of Rakegill Beck in about 1880, though its function as a water supply ceased in 1975.

   3.6 km · reservoir in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Fellbarrow

   Fellbarrow is a low hill in the north west of the English Lake District. It is not far from the town of Cockermouth, near to Loweswater and can most easily be climbed from Low Lorton or Thackthwaite.

   2.6 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Low Fell

   Low Fell is a fell in the English Lake District. It overlooks the lake of Loweswater to the south and to the north is bordered by its neighbour Fellbarrow.

   1.5 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Mellbreak

   Mellbreak is a hill in the Western part of the English Lake District. Despite being surrounded on all sides by higher fells, it stands in isolation.

   3.8 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Hen Comb

   Hen Comb is a fell in the west of the English Lake District. One of the Loweswater Fells it lies to the south of Loweswater lake and Loweswater village.

   3.6 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Knock Murton

   Knock Murton or Murton Fell is a hill of 464.4 metres in the north west of the Lake District, England. It lies in the Cumberland district in Cumbria.

   4 km · hill in Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria, England · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Church of St Michael

    St Michael is in Lamplugh, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle.

    3.7 km · church in Lamplugh, Cumbria, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Loweswater

Airports

Isle of Man (IOM), 99 km · Newcastle (NCL), 118 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 128 km

• Castletown → Loweswater

  101 km · quickest by road, 7h 30m · $21–29
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• Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Loweswater

  9 km · quickest by road, 26 min · £1.5–2
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• Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Loweswater

  131 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £19–25
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