| Coordinates: | 54.436, -2.998 |
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| OS grid ref: | NY 35 05 |
| Dialling code: | 015394 (Hawkshead) |
Lakes is a large civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, sitting in the heart of the Lake District National Park. Its landscape is typically Lakeland: glacial ribbon lakes, steep fells, wooded valleys and scattered hamlets, so the parish feels more like a collection of dramatic scenery than a single built-up place.
Economically and socially it is shaped by tourism and traditional hill farming - walking, boating and hospitality are major income sources alongside sheep grazing and some historic quarrying. The area has long cultural ties to Lakeland literature and the Victorian tourist boom, and today balances conservation, local communities and the pressures of second homes and visitor numbers.
Postcode districts covering Lakes
Most populated places nearby
- Barrow-in-Furness 23.5 miles
- Kendal 12.8 miles
- Whitehaven 24.2 miles
- Penrith 20.3 miles
- Ulverston 17.3 miles
Neighbouring places
- Windermere and Ambleside Ward 1.3 miles
- Ambleside Built-up area 1.5 miles
- Skelwith Parish 1.9 miles
- Grasmere Built-up area 2.1 miles
- Hawkshead Built-up area 4.3 miles
- Claife Parish 4.7 miles
- Windermere Built-up area 5.1 miles
- Coniston Built-up area 5.5 miles
- Bowness-on-Windermere Built-up area 6.2 miles
- Kentmere Parish 6.7 miles
- Patterdale Parish 7 miles
- Hugill Parish 7.1 miles
Example postcodes in Lakes
LA22 9NX, LA22 9RD, LA22 0HF, LA22 9BJ, LA22 0AL, LA22 9QB, LA23 1NA, LA22 0BT, LA22 9JW … See all
Transport links
- Durham Tees Valley Airport 63.2 miles
- Newcastle International Airport 66.6 miles
- Windermere Railway Station 5.5 miles
- Staveley Railway Station 8.4 miles
Hotels in Lakes Ad
- Langdale Chase Hotel 5
- Bridge House Hotel & Silver Howe View Cottage
- Ambleside Salutation Hotel & Spa, World Hotel Distinctive 4
- Rothay Manor Hotel 4
- The Grand at Grasmere 3
- Tweedies Bar and Lodge 3
- Brathay Hall - Brathay Trust 3
- Rothay Garden by Harbour Hotels 4
- Broadoaks Country House 5
- Forest Side Hotel
Schools in Lakes
- Ambleside C of E Primary School Primary
- Grasmere C of E Primary School Primary
- Langdale C of E School Primary
Local points of interest
- Wray Castle Estate 4.2 miles
- Cumbrian Mountains Mountains 7.7 miles
- Blencathra Centre Country house 13.1 miles
- Watercrook Archaeological site 13.4 miles
- Lowther Castle Estate 15.5 miles
- Cartmel Racecourse Recreation 16.2 miles
- Holker Hall Estate 17.5 miles
- Brougham Castle Archaeological site 18.7 miles
- Brocavum Archaeological site 18.7 miles