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Windermere or Lake Windermere [a] is a ribbon lake in Cumbria, England, and part of the Lake District. [5] It is the largest lake in England by length, area, and volume, but considerably smaller than the largest Scottish lochs and Northern Irish loughs .
Windermere Lake Provincial Park is located at the lake's southwestern end. It is named for James Chabot , aka Jim Chabot, MLA for Columbia-Revelstoke from 1963 to 1986 and former Minister of Lands, Parks and Housing in the regime of Social Credit Premier W.A.C. Bennett .
The longest ice skating trail can be found on the Lake Windermere Whiteway. The naturally frozen trail measures 29.98 kilometres (18.63 mi). [4] When Guinness Book of World Records verified the record in 2014, the ice measured between 12 inches (30 cm) and 30 inches (76 cm) depending where you were in one of the four loops that runs continuously around the lake.
Map of Belle Isle, Windermere. Belle Isle is the largest of 18 islands on Windermere, a mere in the English Lake District, [1] and the only one ever to have been inhabited. [1] It is 1 km in length. It is rumoured that in Roman times a villa was once built on the island, with a possible connection to the Roman fort at Ambleside. [2]
Apr. 25—As Mineral Lake shone green in the morning sun on Saturday, folks walked around the lakeside Lions Den Campground with coffee mugs in hand and grins on their faces. One man approached ...
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 .
Ambleside & District Golf Club founded in 1903 ended in the late 1950s; Windermere Golf Club is a few miles along the lake's east side. [14] The Armitt Library and Museum opened in 1912 in memory of Sophia and Mary Louisa Armitt is notable as a resource for history. Its main resident collection overviews Lake District artists and writers with ...
The A592 going over Kirkstone Pass. The A592 road is a major route running north–south through the English Lake District.. The road connects Penrith and junction 40 of the M6 motorway), with Staveley at the southern tip of the lake, Windermere which is skirted by the A592 on its eastern bank; the road also follows the northern/western