Wansfell, Rydal

Name: Wansfell
Address: Rydal, United Kingdom

#4 among attractions in Rydal

Nature, Natural attraction, Hill

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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. ()

Elevation: 1597 ftProminence: 485 ftCoordinates: 54°26'18"N, 2°55'18"W

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Rydal United Kingdom

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Wansfell – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Red Screes, Rydal Mount, Brockhole, Galava.

2.3 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Red Screes, Rydal
58 min walk • Red Screes is a fell in the English Lake District, situated between the villages of Patterdale and Ambleside. It may be considered an outlier of the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells, but is separated from its neighbours by low cols.
2.5 miW
Wordsworth's Lakeland cottage and gardens
Rydal Mount, Rydal
65 min walk • Rydal Mount is a house in the small village of Rydal, near Ambleside in the English Lake District. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth from 1813 to his death in 1850. It is currently operated as a writer's home museum.
2.8 miS
Nature and wildlife, Park, Visitor center
Brockhole, Windermere
71 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.
2.2 miSW
Archaeological site
Galava, Ambleside
56 min walk • Ambleside Roman Fort is the modern name given to the remains of a fort of the Roman province of Britannia. The ruins have been tentatively identified as Galava, mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary.
2.7 miS
Garden, Park
Holehird Gardens, Windermere
70 min walk • Holehird Gardens is an extensive 10-acre site located near Windermere, Cumbria, England. It is the home of the Lakeland Horticultural Society.
1.7 miW
54°25'47"N • 2°57'45"W
Ambleside Climbing Wall, Ambleside
45 min walk • Sport complex, Climbing
2.4 miW
Garden, Historical place, Convention center
Rydal Hall, Rydal
63 min walk • Rydal Hall is a large detached house on the outskirts of the village of Rydal, Cumbria, in the English Lake District. It has an early nineteenth-century front facade, but includes some earlier fabric.
2 miSW
Park
Stagshaw Garden, Ambleside
51 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 miW
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St Mary's Church, Ambleside
48 min walk • St Mary's Church is in Ambleside, Cumbria, England. It was built in the 1850s to a design by George Gilbert Scott in Gothic Revival style. The building is Grade II* listed. Notable features include its stone spire, which is a local landmark and an unusual feature in Lake District churches.
1.8 miS
Museum, Historical place
Townend, Windermere
46 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.
2.1 miSW
Bridge
Rothay Manor, Ambleside
53 min walk • Rothay Manor is a country house near Ambleside in Cumbria. It is a Grade II listed building.