Mirehouse
Mirehouse is a 17th-century house to the north of Keswick in Cumbria, at the foot of Dodd, near Bassenthwaite Lake and St Bega's Church, on the A591 road.
Mirehouse is a 17th-century house to the north of Keswick in Cumbria, at the foot of Dodd, near Bassenthwaite Lake and St Bega's Church, on the A591 road. Although still a family home it and its grounds are open to the public and in 1999 won the award for 'Best Heritage Property for Families in the UK'.
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Worth seeing in and around Mirehouse
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.
- 01Bassenthwaite Lake
Bassenthwaite Lake is a body of water in the Lake District in North West England, near the town of Keswick. It has an area of 5.3 km2, making the fourth largest of the lakes in the region.
1.7 km · lake in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Skiddaw
Skiddaw is a mountain in the Lake District National Park in England. Its 931-metre summit is traditionally considered to be the fourth-highest peak but depending on what topographic prominence is thought to be significant is also variously ranked as the third- and the sixth-highest in England.
2.9 km · mountain in Cumbria, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Dodd
Dodd is a small fell in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, four kilometres north-west of Keswick. It forms part of the Skiddaw range in the northern part of the national park and the slopes are heavily wooded.
1.8 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Barf
Barf is a fell in the north-western Lake District in Cumbria, UK. It stands on the south-western shore of Bassenthwaite Lake. Barf is well known for a whitewashed pillar of rock on the lower slopes, the so-called "Bishop's Rock" or "Bishop of Barf".
2.4 km · mountain in Cumbria · Wikipedia - 05Broom Fell
Broom Fell is a hill with the status of a Wainwright in the English Lake District. It lies on a ridge connecting Lord's Seat and Graystones.
3.9 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Long Side
Long Side is a fell in the English Lake District, it is situated six kilometres north west of Keswick in the northern sector of the national park and is part of the Skiddaw group of fells. Long Side which reaches a height of 734 metres is located on Skiddaw’s north western ridge, the middle section of which is known as Longside Edge.
1.7 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Lord's Seat
Lord's Seat is a fell in the English Lake District. It is the highest of the group of hills north of Whinlatter Pass in the North Western Fells.
3.4 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Skiddaw Little Man
Skiddaw Little Man, also called Little Man, is a fell in the English Lake District; it is situated four kilometres north of the town of Keswick and reaches a height of 865 metres.
3.5 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Ullock Pike
Ullock Pike is a fell situated in northern part of the English Lake District. It is located seven kilometres north west of Keswick and achieves a height of 691 metres.
1.3 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Carl Side
Carl Side is a fell in the English Lake District, forming a part of the Skiddaw "family" near the town of Keswick and prominently visible from its streets. It is listed in Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells as one of the Northern Fells.
2.3 km · fell in the English Lake District · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mirehouse
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 106 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 112 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 130 km
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Mirehouse107 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £13–17
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Mirehouse127 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · £20–26
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Mirehouse143 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Mirehouse
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 Mirehouse. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Mirehouse
- Bassenthwaitevillage and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK3.9 km
- Thornthwaitevillage in Cumbria, UK3.1 km
- Chapelhamlet in Cumbria, England, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Little Crosthwaitehamlet in Cumbria, England, UK2.3 km