Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club

#6868 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Yacht club, Sailing

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The Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club is a British boating club based at Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria. The Club was founded in the 1920s. Its present headquarters, Broad Leys, was acquired in the 1950s. It is an architecturally significant building. ()

Coordinates: 54°19'54"N, 2°56'5"W

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Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Windermere, Hill Top, Esthwaite Water, Windermere Jetty.

2 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Windermere
52 min walk • Nestled in the heart of the Lake District National Park, Windermere stands as the largest natural lake in England. This ribbon lake was formed in a glacial trough after the retreat of ice at the end of the last Ice Age. Today, it is a centerpiece of the region...
2 miNW
Museum, History museum
Hill Top, Hawkshead
51 min walk • Hill Top is a 17th-century house in Near Sawrey near Hawkshead, in the English county of Cumbria. It is an example of Lakeland vernacular architecture with random stone walls and slate roof.
2.8 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Esthwaite Water, Hawkshead
72 min walk • Esthwaite Water is one of the smaller and lesser known lakes in the Lake District National Park in northern England. It is situated between the much larger lakes of Windermere and Coniston Water, in the traditional county of Lancashire; since 1974 in the county of Cumbria.
2.7 miN
Museum
Windermere Jetty, Windermere
71 min walk • Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories is a museum on the eastern shore of Windermere between Bowness-on-Windermere and the town of Windermere in Cumbria, England. It reopened in March 2019 after 12 years' closure and redevelopment work.
3.4 miS
Museum, Historical place
Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Windermere
88 min walk • Stott Park Bobbin Mill is a 19th-century bobbin mill and now a working museum located near Newby Bridge, Cumbria, England. Built in 1835 the mill was one of over 65 such buildings in the Lake District, which provided wooden bobbins to the weaving and spinning industry primarily in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
2.3 miN
Gothic Revival architecture, Town, Church
St Martin's Church, Windermere
59 min walk • St Martin's Church stands in the centre of the town of Bowness-on-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.
0.9 miNE
Museum, Art museum, Historical place
Blackwell, Windermere
24 min walk • Blackwell is a large house in the English Lake District, designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Baillie Scott. It was built in 1898–1900, as a holiday home for Sir Edward Holt, a wealthy Manchester brewer.
3.5 miN
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St Mary's Church, Windermere
90 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.
2.4 miN
Town, Area
Bowness-on-Windermere, Windermere
61 min walk • Bowness-on-Windermere is a town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Windermere, in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England. Due to its position on the banks of Windermere, the town has become a tourist honeypot.
3.2 miNE
Hill
School Knott, Windermere
83 min walk • School Knott is a hill in the Lake District, England, to the east of Windermere town, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. His recommended route starts at Windermere railway station and includes Grandsire at 818 feet and a nameless summit at 806 feet.
1.6 miN
Hiking, Hiking trail
Windermere Way
42 min walk • The Windermere Way is a 45-mile circuit of Windermere, a lake in the English Lake District. The route is wholly within the Lake District National Park and takes in the summits of Wansfell, Loughrigg Fell and Gummer's How as well as passing through the towns of Ambleside and Windermere.