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Rottington

Rottington is a hamlet and former civil parish which is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Whitehaven; now in the parish of St Bees, Cumberland, Cumbria, England.

Rottington
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The place

Rottington is a hamlet and former civil parish which is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Whitehaven; now in the parish of St Bees, Cumberland, Cumbria, England. It has a population of 51.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rottington

3 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
    St Bees Lighthouse

    St Bees Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on St Bees Head near the village of St Bees in Cumbria, England. The cliff-top light is the highest in England at 102 m above sea level.

    2.4 km · lighthouse in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Bees Priory

    St Bees Priory is the parish church of St Bees, Cumbria, in England. There is evidence of a pre-Norman religious site, on which a Benedictine priory was founded by the first Norman Lord of Egremont William Meschin.

    1.2 km · church, formerly Benedictine priory in Cumbria, England, UK, a cell of St Mary's, York · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St John

    St John, Bigrigg is an Anglican church near Bigrigg, in Cumbria in northern England. It is in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle.

    3.6 km · church building in Egremont, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Rottington

Airports
Isle of Man (IOM), 81 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 127 km · Newcastle (NCL), 136 km
Stations
St Bees railway station, 1.4 km
  • Castletown → Rottington
    83 km · quickest by road, 7h 43m · $19–27
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Rottington
    128 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · £20–27
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Rottington
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £15–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rottington

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 Rottington. 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

    154 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    190 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    216 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    301 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    323 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rottington

  • St Beesvillage and civil parish in Cumbria, UK1.6 km
  • Bigriggvillage in Cumbria, England, UK3.9 km
  • Sandwithvillage in Cumbria, England1.6 km
  • Mirehousearea and ward in Copeland, Cumbria, England3 km