Staveley-in-Cartmel
Staveley-in-Cartmel is a village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area, Cumbria, England.
Staveley-in-Cartmel is a village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area, Cumbria, England. It lies east of Newby Bridge, near the south end of Windermere, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Ulverston. It is sometimes known as Staveley-in-Furness. Both names distinguish it from another Staveley in Cumbria. The parish includes Ayside, Barber Green, Seatle and part of Newby Bridge. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 428, decreasing at the 2011 census to 405.
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Worth seeing in and around Staveley-in-Cartmel
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.
- 01Gummer's How
Gummer's How is a hill in the southern part of the Lake District, on the eastern shore of Windermere, near its southern end. How, derived from the Old Norse word haugr, is a common local term for a hill or mound.
2.5 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Lakes Aquarium
The Lakes Aquarium is an aquarium in the village of Lakeside on the southern shore of Windermere, Cumbria, England. It is one of the docking points of Windermere Lake Cruises and also at one end of the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway.
1.2 km · aquarium on the shore of Windermere, Cumbria · Wikipedia - 03Stott Park Bobbin Mill
Stott Park Bobbin Mill is a 19th-century bobbin mill and now a working museum located near Newby Bridge, Cumbria, England. Built in 1835, the mill was one of over 65 buildings in the Lake District which provided wooden bobbins to the weaving and spinning industry, primarily in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
2.2 km · 19th-century bobbin mill museum; at Newby Bridge, Cumbria, England. · Wikipedia - 04Newby Bridge
Newby Bridge is a hamlet in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is located several miles west of Grange-over-Sands and is on the River Leven, close to the southern end of Windermere.
1 km · small hamlet in the Lake District, Cumbria · Wikipedia - 05Simpson Ground Reservoir
Simpson Ground Reservoir is a reservoir in Cumbria, England, near the southeastern end of Windermere. It is located within a Forestry Commission conifer plantation, to the east of Staveley-in-Cartmel and provides fresh water supply for Grange-Over-Sands and the Haweswater aqueduct to Barrow.
1.5 km · reservoir in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Bigland Barrow
Bigland Barrow is a hill in the English Lake District, near Backbarrow, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
2.7 km · hill in Haverthwaite, Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 07Fell Foot Park
Fell Foot Park is a country park situated at the southern end of Windermere in Cumbria, the largest lake in England. It is north of Newby Bridge in the civil parish of Staveley-in-Cartmel, in Westmorland and Furness.
900 m · Country park near Windermere, Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 08Lakeland Motor Museum
The Lakeland Motor Museum is a museum now located at Backbarrow, Cumbria, England which houses a collection of classic cars, motorcycles, bicycles, pedal cars and motoring related items and memorabilia and an exhibition dedicated to the land and water speed record activities of Sir Malcolm Campbell and his son Donald Campbell.
2.5 km · transport museum in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 09Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway
The Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway is a 3.2-mile-long heritage railway in Cumbria, England.
2.3 km · heritage railway in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia - 10Newton Fell
Newton Fell is a hill in the English Lake District near High Newton, south east of Newby Bridge, Cumbria. It lies to the north east of the A590 road.
3.9 km · hill in Cumbria, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Staveley-in-Cartmel
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 95 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 104 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 111 km
- Stations
- Haverthwaite railway station, 3.6 km · Lakeside railway station, 1.2 km · Newby Bridge Halt railway station, 1.4 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Staveley-in-Cartmel105 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £12–16
- Liverpool → Staveley-in-Cartmel95 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £12–16
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Staveley-in-Cartmel98 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Staveley-in-Cartmel
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 Staveley-in-Cartmel. 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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Next door to Staveley-in-Cartmel
Staveley-in-Cartmel is 58 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Backbarrowvillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Lakesidevillage in Cumbria, England, UK1.4 km
- Finsthwaitevillage in Cumbria, England, UK2.1 km
- High Newtonvillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Aysidevillage in Cumbria, England, UK2.9 km