Sour Howes, Ambleside

Name: Sour Howes
Address: Ambleside, United Kingdom

#21 among attractions in Ambleside

Nature, Natural attraction, Hill

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Sour Howes is a small fell in the English Lake District. It is situated five kilometres east of Ambleside, between the Troutbeck and Kentmere valleys and is one of the two separate fells on Applethwaite Common. ()

Elevation: 1585 ftProminence: 112 ftCoordinates: 54°25'13"N, 2°53'7"W

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Ambleside United Kingdom

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Sour Howes – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Brockhole, Holehird Gardens, Ambleside Climbing Wall, Wray Castle.

2.7 miSW
Nature and wildlife, Park, Visitor center
Brockhole, Windermere
69 min walk • The Brockhole Lake District Visitor Centre, also known as the Brockhole National Park Visitor Centre, is a visitor centre and tourist attraction managed by the Lake District National Park Authority. It is situated on the shore of Lake Windermere, roughly equidistant between the towns of Bowness-on-Windermere and Ambleside.
1.8 miSW
Garden, Park
Holehird Gardens, Windermere
45 min walk • Holehird Gardens is an extensive 10-acre site located near Windermere, Cumbria, England. It is the home of the Lakeland Horticultural Society.
3.2 miW
54°25'47"N • 2°57'45"W
Ambleside Climbing Wall, Ambleside
81 min walk • Sport complex, Climbing
3.3 miW
History museum, Historical place, Gothic Revival architecture
Wray Castle, Ambleside
84 min walk • Wray Castle is a Victorian neo-gothic building at Claife in the English county of Cumbria. The house and grounds have belonged to the National Trust since 1929, but the house has only recently opened to the public on a regular basis.
2.5 miS
Lookout, Historic walking areas, View point
Orrest Head, Windermere
63 min walk • Orrest Head is a hill in the English Lake District on the eastern shores of Windermere. It is the subject of a chapter in Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, and the first fell he climbed.
2.9 miW
Park
Stagshaw Garden, Ambleside
74 min walk • Stagshaw Garden is a woodland garden situated south of Ambleside, in Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust. The garden is noted for its shrubs, including rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias.
1.9 miE
Church
St Cuthbert's Church
50 min walk • St Cuthbert's Church, Kentmere is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Kentmere, Cumbria. Its benefice is united with that of St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere; St Anne's Church, Ings; St James' Church, Staveley; Jesus Church, Troutbeck and St Mary's Church, Windermere.
2.9 miS
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St Mary's Church, Windermere
74 min walk • St Mary's Church is in the town of Windermere, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.
2.5 miSE
Hill
High Knott, Windermere
65 min walk • High Knott, marked on some Ordnance Survey maps as Williamson's Monument, is a hill in the eastern part of the English Lake District, near Staveley, Cumbria. The monument on its summit was built by the Reverend T.
1.3 miSW
Museum, Historical place
Townend, Windermere
34 min walk • Townend is a 17th-century house located in Troutbeck, Windermere, Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust. It was donated to the Trust in 1948. Prior to this it was the home of the Browne family, local farmers, for 400 years.
1.9 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Wansfell, Rydal
49 min walk • Wansfell is a fell in English Lake District situated 1½ miles east of the town of Ambleside. The fell is part of the long southern ridge of Caudale Moor and occupies the swath of territory between Ambleside and the Troutbeck valley.