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Whitehaven

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Whitehaven

6 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
    Watch Hill

    172 m hill near Whitehaven in the Lake District

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St James' Church, Whitehaven

    Church in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, UK

    200 m · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Moresby Hall

    Grade I listed English country house in Parton, Cumberland, Cumbria , England, UK

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Keekle Viaduct

    Bridge in United Kingdom

    3.4 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Whitehaven Town Hall

    Municipal building in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, UK

    100 m · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Begh's Church, Whitehaven

    Church building in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, UK

    700 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Whitehaven

Airports
Isle of Man (IOM), 85 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 123 km · Newcastle (NCL), 133 km
Stations
Whitehaven railway station, 500 m · Parton railway station, 2.3 km · Corkickle railway station, 800 m
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Whitehaven
    124 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · £20–26
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Whitehaven
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £15–19
  • Liverpool → Whitehaven
    133 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Whitehaven

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 Whitehaven. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inGet off at {{marker|type |wikidata By bike By ferry=== There are no scheduled ferry services to/from Workington.

From Wikivoyage: Workington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    151 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    186 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    213 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    319 km

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

Around it

Next door to Whitehaven

  • Partonvillage and civil parish in Cumbria, UK2.3 km
  • Lowcavillage in Cumberland, Cumbria, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Moresbycivil parish in Cumbria, England2.6 km
  • Weddicarcivil parish in Copeland, Cumbria, England3.6 km
  • Hensinghamvillage in Cumbria, England, UK2.1 km
  • Sandwithvillage in Cumbria, England3.7 km