Leven River, Newby Bridge England

Newby Bridge over Leven River. Lake Windermere drains into the Leven River which flows into Morecambe Bay (Leven Estuary) near Ulverston. Built in 1651. The town gets its name from this bridge.

Boats on the Leven River at Newby Bridge

Walking to Fell Foot on A592. Like most roads in England, it's got no shoulders, and is very narrow.

Another picture showing how unsafe it feels to walk on these roads.

A dead tree off the side in a field off the side of the road as we walked to Fell Foot.

Another view of the not so wide roads.

First look at Lake Windermere. The lake covers an area of 5.7 square miles and reaches a depth of about 220 feet (67 m) near its northern end. It's about 11 miles long.

Walking along Lake Windermere in Fell Foot.

Lake Windermere

Docks at Fell Foot Country Park. Our intention was to take a ferry from here to the other side of the lake, then take another ferry up the lake, but the Fell Foot ferry wasn't running so we had to walk back to Newby Bridge and then to the Lake side that had the ferry we wanted.

Another view of the dock area at Fell Foot Country Park. While he, a pair of low flying F15's flew over, which seemed out of place.

Lakeside Hotel. The dock here is where the ferry launched from. This hotel has recently been damaged by flooding in England and is probably going to be torn down (11/09). About 2ft of water on the ground floor, was reported.

Sail boat on lake Windermere

Windermere - House? Hotel?

Storrs Hall Hotel: Georgian Mansion, 1808-1811 by Joseph Gandy (1771-1843). The house was built for Sir John Legard.

Storrs Temple (1804). A "folly", which is a structure built for ornamentation and that has no practical purpose.

Boats on Windermere near town of Bowness

Town of Bowness - Brenda and Amanda checking a menu.

Town of Bowness - St Martin's Church (1483). There was a church on this site dating back to 1203, but it burnt down in 1480.

Town of Bowness - 400+ year old Rose Cottage.

Town of Bowness - a touristy place.

Town of Bowness - St Martin's Church (1483)

Some more views of Windermere from the tour boat. North of Bowness, heading north towards Waterhead and Ambleside.

Out the front window of the tour boat.

Some small sail boats on Windermere.

More views of Windermere

More views of Windermere

Distant mountains viewed from Windermere - Langdale Pikes: Harrison Stickle (2414 feet) and Pike of Stickle (2326 feet)

Someone's home up on the hill? Near Low Wood Hotel.

Langdale Chase Hotel: Elizabethan gabled house built as a private house in 1891 to a design by J.L. Ball, J.T. Lee and Pattinson of Manchester.

Low Wood Hotel and marina

More of the hillside near Low Wood Hotel.

Someone's home? Couldn't find any information on it.

Piers at the hamlet of Waterhead on the northern end of Windermere

More of Waterhead bay area of Windermere

A pretty garden on our walk from the hamlet of Waterhead to Ambleside

Everyone is heading to Ambleside...

A view of what I believe is Wansfell (altitude ~1600ft)

Spire of St Mary's Church in Ambleside (1850-1854)

A view of High Pike (2150ft). The stone walls running over mountain peaks and ridges kind of reminds me of the great wall of China.

The town of Ambleside

Brenda and Amanda ducking into a tea shop in Ambleside

Walking around in Ambleside you often feel too close to the road.