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Meathop

Meathop is a village in the non-metropolitan county of Westmorland and Furness and the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England.

The place

Meathop is a village in the non-metropolitan county of Westmorland and Furness and the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. Historically in Westmorland, it is located 3.6 miles (5.8 km) north east of Grange over Sands, between the confluence of the River Kent estuary and the River Winster on the edge of Morecambe Bay.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Meathop

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.

  1. 01
    Arnside Knott

    Arnside Knott is a hill with a summit elevation of 159 metres, near Arnside, Cumbria, England. It is not in the Lake District National Park, lying south of the River Kent which forms the south eastern boundary of the national park.

    3.8 km · 159 m hill near Arnside, Cumbria, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St James' Church, Arnside

    St James' Church is in the village of Arnside, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Kendal, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.

    2.9 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Arnside Viaduct

    Arnside Viaduct is a viaduct carrying the Lancaster to Barrow railway line over the River Kent. Construction started in 1856, finished in 1857 and expanded to a two-track railway in 1863.

    2.3 km · railway bridge in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Castle Head Field Centre

    Castle Head is a country house surrounded by 20 acres of grounds near to the seaside resort of Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria, England. It is run by Field Studies Council, and is a Grade II listed building.

    1.9 km · grade II listed English country house in Grange-over-Sands, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria , England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Paul's Church

    St Paul's Church is in the village of Witherslack, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Kendal, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.

    3.4 km · church in Witherslack, Westmorland and Furness, 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.

Go there

Getting to Meathop

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 88 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 98 km · Manchester (MAN), 104 km
Stations
Grange-over-Sands railway station, 3.7 km · Arnside railway station, 3 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Meathop
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £12–15
  • Liverpool → Meathop
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £12–16
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Meathop
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Meathop

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    210 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    244 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    271 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    355 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    359 km

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

Around it

Next door to Meathop

Meathop is 52 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.