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Winscales

Winscales is a hamlet and civil parish in the Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, south west of Workington.

The place

Winscales is a hamlet and civil parish in the Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, south west of Workington. In the 2011 census it had a population of 237.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Winscales

Airports
Isle of Man (IOM), 94 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 119 km · Newcastle (NCL), 126 km
  • Castletown → Winscales
    96 km · quickest by road, 7h 38m · $22–30
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Winscales
    120 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · £19–25
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Winscales
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Winscales

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 Winscales. 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

    148 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    183 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    210 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    315 km

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