Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg
Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg is a civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England.
Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg is a civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England. It was formed on 1 April 2015 by merging the parishes of Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg, which had shared a parish council since 2007.
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Worth seeing in and around Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg
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.
- 01Kendal Castle
Kendal Castle is a medieval fortification to the east of the town of Kendal, Cumbria, in northern England. The castle, which is atop a glacial drumlin, was built in the 13th century as the Caput baroniae for the Barony of Kendal.
3 km · castle in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Castle Howe
Castle Howe is a motte and bailey castle in the town of Kendal, England.
3.5 km · castle in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 03Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Abbot Hall Art Gallery is an art gallery in Kendal, England. Abbot Hall was built in 1759 by Colonel George Wilson, the second son of Daniel Wilson of Dallam Tower, a large house and country estate nearby.
3.4 km · Grade I listed art museum in Kendal, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Kendal Parish Church
Kendal Parish Church, also known as the Holy Trinity Church due to its dedication to the Holy Trinity, is the Anglican parish church of Kendal, Cumbria, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
3.4 km · church in South Lakeland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Burneside Hall
Burneside Hall is a converted medieval pele tower in Burneside, Cumbria, England.
2.4 km · peel tower · Wikipedia - 06Church of Holy Trinity and St George, Kendal
The Church of Holy Trinity and St George is in New Road, Kendal, Cumbria, England. It is an active Roman Catholic parish church in the diocese of Lancaster.
2.9 km · church in South Lakeland, UK · Wikipedia - 07Change Bridge Over Former Lancaster-Kendal Canal
Change Bridge is a Grade II listed single-arch changeline bridge spanning what was formerly a section of the Lancaster Canal in the English market town of Kendal, Cumbria. The structure dates to around 1817.
3.7 km · bridge in Kendal, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08St Thomas' Church, Kendal
St Thomas' Church is in Stricklandgate, Kendal, 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.
2.8 km · grade II listed church in Kendal, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria , England, UK · Wikipedia - 09The Castle Dairy
The Castle Dairy is a medieval building located in Kendal, Cumbria. The name implies a connection to Kendal Castle and it is possibly the town's oldest continuously inhabited structure.
2.5 km · medieval building located in Kendal, Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Friends Meeting House
Kendal Friends Meeting House is a Friends meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends in Kendal, Cumbria, in north-western England. There have been Quakers in Kendal since the 17th century when the town was visited by George Fox.
2.8 km · Quaker meeting house in Kendal, South Lakeland, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 88 km · Newcastle (NCL), 101 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 113 km
- Stations
- Kendal railway station, 2.4 km · Burneside railway station, 3 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg99 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £12–16
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg99 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £13–17
- Liverpool → Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg106 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £12–16
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg
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 Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAlternatively, buses are available every 20 minutes from the railway station to the ferry jetty.
- Get inA car ferry operates daily (except 25, 26 Dec) from Far Sawrey, running M-Sa approximately every 20 minutes between 6:50AM and 8:50PM, starting Su at 9:10AM on, and with later sailings in summer.
- Get aroundThe main attraction of Bowness-on-Windermere is the ferry.
- Get aroundThe ferry trip is an experience of a lifetime, offering a fabulous ride across a wonderful lake.
- Get aroundSome people prefer to return by ferry, others move ahead from Ambleside to other places such as Rydal Mount, Grasmere, or Keswick, or even return from Ambleside to either Bowness-on-Windermere or Windermere town by bus or taxi.
From Wikivoyage: Bowness-on-Windermere, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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