Walks from Windermere station
17 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Windermere — the closest is Orrest Head at 0.7 km, the highest Sallows at 516 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
- Station code
- WDM
- Grid reference
- SD414986
- Coordinates
- 54.37960, -2.90339
- Locality
- Windermere
- Operator
- Northern Trains
- Entries & exits
- 402,704 · #978 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 17
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
About Windermere station
Windermere is the northern terminus of the branch line from Oxenholme, serving the town of Windermere in Cumbria. The station sits just south of the A591, about 25 minutes' walk or a short bus ride from Lake Windermere. It stands behind a former branch of the Booths supermarket chain, which occupies the site of the original station building. The station is owned by Network Rail and operated by Northern Trains.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Windermere railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 17 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Windermere is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orrest Head | 238 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 0.7 km | N |
| 2 | School Knott | 231.7 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 1.6 km | SE |
| 3 | Grandsire | 251 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 2.2 km | SE |
| 4 | nameless (School Knott) | 247 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 2.4 km | SE |
| 5 | Brant Fell | 191 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 2.5 km | S |
| 6 | Claife Heights | 269.9 m | Wainwright Outlying FellMarilynHuMP | 3.4 km | W |
| 7 | High Knott | 275 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 4.3 km | E |
| 8 | Reston Scar | 255 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 4.6 km | E |
| 9 | Latterbarrow | 244 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 4.7 km | W |
| 10 | Sour Howes | 483 m | WainwrightBirkettSynge | 4.8 km | N |
| 11 | Hugill Fell (Wainwright summit) | 265 m | Wainwright Outlying Fell | 4.9 km | E |
| 12 | Sallows | 516 m | WainwrightDeweyBirkett+2 | 5.8 km | N |
| 13 | Baystones | 486.9 m | WainwrightFellrangerHuMP | 6.6 km | N |
| 14 | Brunt Knott | 427 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 7.3 km | E |
| 15 | Hollow Moor | 426 m | Wainwright Outlying FellBirkettSynge | 7.7 km | NE |
| 16 | Troutbeck Tongue | 364 m | WainwrightBirkettSynge+1 | 7.9 km | N |
| 17 | Black Fell | 323 m | WainwrightBirkettSynge+2 | 8 km | W |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Windermere before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Long-distance paths from this station
One waymarked long-distance route passes within 2 km of the station — a made line to follow out of the door, or a way to link this station to the next one down the line.
| Route | Total length | From station |
|---|---|---|
| Dales Way | 129 km | 1.7 km |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the station computed by OpenFell.
Daylight here today
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- Sunset
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Windermere on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps