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Rampside

Rampside is a village in Cumbria, England.

Rampside
Rampside · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Rampside is a village in Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is located a few miles south-east of the town of Barrow-in-Furness, in the north-western corner of Morecambe Bay on the Furness peninsula.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rampside

4 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
    Piel Castle

    Piel Castle, also known as Fouldry Castle or the Pile of Fouldray, is a castle situated on the south-eastern point of Piel Island, off the coast of the Furness Peninsula in north-west England. Built in the early-14th century by John Cockerham, the Abbot of neighbouring Furness Abbey, it was intended to oversee the trade through the local harbour and to protect against Scottish raids.

    2.3 km · Grade I listed building in Cumbria, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rampside Lighthouse

    'Rampside Leading Light, is a leading light located in the Rampside area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Built in 1875, it is the only surviving example of 13 such beacons built around Barrow during the late 19th century to aid vessels into the town's port.

    500 m · grade II listed lighthouse in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Walney Lighthouse

    Walney Lighthouse is a functioning lighthouse located on Walney Island in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The current building dates to the early 19th-century and is Grade II* listed as well as being the southernmost man-made structure in Cumbria.

    3.9 km · lighthouse in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rampside Hall

    Rampside Hall is a Grade I listed building in the Rampside area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. It is one of only three Grade I listed buildings in the Borough outside of the Furness Abbey complex and dates back to the 17th century.

    500 m · Grade I listed building in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Rampside

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 86 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 95 km · Manchester (MAN), 100 km
  • Liverpool → Rampside
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £15–20
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rampside
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £15–20
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rampside
    111 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rampside

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 Rampside. 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

    209 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

    270 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    339 km
  5. 05
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    355 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rampside

Rampside is 47 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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