Photographs of the vibrant tourist centres of Bowness and neighbouring Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
LOCAL GALLERIES: Staveley - Troutbeck - Newby Bridge
LOCAL WALKS: Windermere Area Walks
Aerial view of Cockshot Point and Bowness in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Aerial view of Bowness on Windermere in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria.
Aerial view of Bowness on Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
A view over Bowness and Windermere to Esthwaite Water and the Coniston Fells. The Langdale Pikes can be seen to the right of the mountain backdrop.
Aerial view of Bowness Bay, Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Aerial view of Bowness Bay, Bowness on Windermere in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria.
Early morning view of the Bay before the tourists arrive.
Early morning aerial view of Bowness Bay and the Glebe, Bowness on Windermere in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria.
Miss Cumbria, a passenger pleasure boat at Bowness Bay, Windermere in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria.
Misty morning to the south of Bowness on Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria,
Aerial view over Brant Fell from a hot-air balloon.
Misty morning to the south of Bowness on Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Aerial view over Brant Fell from a hot-air balloon.
Misty morning to the south of Bowness on Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Aerial view from a hot-air balloon.
Aerial view from over a mist-covered Bowness towards the Lyth Valley, Cumbria.
Aerial view from a mist-covered Windermere to the west coast of Cumbria.
Aerial view of Windermere Marina Village, Bowness in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Paddleboarder on Windermere at Bowness Bay in the Lake District, Cumbria.
St. Martin's Church, Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria.
Built in 1483, but greatly restored in 1870 by Paley and Austin when the tower was heightened.
Grade 1 Listed.
The view over the lake from Orrest Head, Windermere in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria.
It was this view over Windermere that launched Alfred Wainwright's passion for the Lakeland Fells. In his autobiography Ex-Fellwanderer (1987): “Quite suddenly, we emerged from the shadows of the trees and were on a bare headland, as though a curtain had dramatically been torn aside, beheld a truly magnificent view.”
A view of Red Screes and the Troutbeck fells from Orrest Head, Windermere in the Lake District.
This wonderful all-round viewpoint is believed to be the site of one of King Dunmail's leadership battles.
Aerial view over Windermere and the lake to the central and northern fells of the Lake District in Cumbria.
'Mallard', the Windermere ferry arriving at Ferry Nab, Bowness in the Lake District, Cumbria.
There has been a ferry across the lake since the 15th century. In the early days, overcrowded rowing boats were used and the passengers were expected to row! The present ferry, ‘Mallard’ was built in Wales in 1990. This diesel-powered craft takes ten minutes to drag itself across the lake on underwater cables.
Sailing boats and a hot-air balloon over Windermere in the Lake District National Park.
Rainbow over Windermere at Low Millerground near Bowness in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Sailing boat on the lake at Low Millerground, Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Low cloud on the Langdale Pikes from the private jetty on the lake at Low Millerground, Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Morning swim in the lake from Low Millerground, Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Verbal permission given.
Early morning kayaker on the lake at Low Millerground, Windermere in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Wynlass Beck cascades through the autumnal woodland of Millerground to flow into Windermere at Low Millerground near Bowness in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Brockhole, the Lake District National Park Visitor Centre near Windermere, Cumbria.
The house was built by wealthy Manchester silk merchant, William Henry Aldolphus Gaddum in 1895 to a design by Dan Gibson. Local landscape gardener Thomas Mawson laid out the gardens and the estate.
