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Thornthwaite

Thornthwaite is a village in Cumbria, England.

Thornthwaite
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The place

Thornthwaite is a village in Cumbria, England. Historically in Cumberland, it is just off the A66 road, south of Bassenthwaite Lake and within the Lake District National Park. It is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) by road from Keswick. In 1861 the township had a population of 153.

The place-name contains thwaite ("clearing").

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Thornthwaite

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 108 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 110 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 131 km
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Thornthwaite
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £12–17
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Thornthwaite
    141 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £19–25
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Thornthwaite
    133 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Thornthwaite

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 Thornthwaite. 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

    163 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    197 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    224 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    326 km

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