24. LAKELAND BUSES

Lakes Connection - Scenic Services!

Pictures from bus routes in the Lake District National Park

English Lake District, Cumbria (ex Cumberland/Westmorland)

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Bus Route 555 Lancaster - Carnforth - Milnthorpe - Kendal - Windermere Ambleside - Grasmere - Keswick

With the open top buses (NOT the 555 bus route) watch out for your arms, hands and face from overhanging tree branches!

The 'open top bus' waiting at Grasmere with the 599 service to Windermere.

Windermere bus station - the double-decker of the Stagecoach 555 service linking Lancaster - Carnforth - Milnthorpe Kendal - Windermere - Ambleside - Grasmere - Keswick

A faintly misty Lake Windermere from the 555 bus service

The scenery near Ings between Kendal and Windermere from the 555 bus.

A 555 bus from Windermere to Ambleside, Grasmere and Keswick just leaving the outskirts of Ambleside

555 Buses entering Ambleside

The bus service 505 at Ambleside, the 505 'Coniston Rambler' runs between Kendal - Windermere - Ambleside - Coniston

Scenes on the bus route from Windermere to Ambleside and Grasmere by Lake Windermere, 505 or 555 bus services

I'll just let the pictures tell their own story from the open top deck double-decker bus!

Leaving Windermere

Continuous superb scenes across Lake Windermere ...

One of the best bus stop views in the UK

.... all the way to the Langdale Pikes

Arriving in Ambleside

Grasmere bust stop!

The open-top bus for tourists that connects Windermere, Ambleside and Grasmere.

The Stagecoach Bus 555 at Windermere en-route for Keswick

The 555 passing through Grasmere

Thirlmere

The Thirlmere reservoir

The weather deteriorating at Thirlspot, stopping by the King's Head Hotel

The Kings Head Hotel at Thirlspot on a much better day in October 2015

Cows on the road near Thirlspot!

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Weather not too good just before Keswick

The Bus station at Keswick by Booths store -excellent shop.

555 Bus ride from Lancaster to Windermere

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Bus Service 516 'The Langdale Rambler' from Kendal to Windermere and Dungeon Ghyll

The 516 bus passing through Ambleside on a beautiful clear winter's day.

The 516 bus heading into Great Langdale

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The Langdale Pikes coming into view

A great view of the Langdale Pikes as the 516 bus service runs down the valley of Great Langdale

The 516 bus service passing through Elterwater

After getting off the 516 bus at Elterwater, the road straight ahead goes right down into the Great Langdale valley with the snow covered Langdale Pikes on the distant left.

Bus Routes X4 and X5 Workington - Cockermouth - Keswick - Penrith

The X5 bus entering Threlkeld en route to Penrith

The X4 bus passing through Threlkeld with a service from Penrith to Keswick, Cockermouth and Workington.

A coffee break in Booths Cafe, between buses at Keswick bus station.

Mind your head on the 'open-top' buses!

A Lake District National Park Index

2a. Grasmere to Easedale Tarn Walk

2b. Grasmere Village, St Oswald's Church and Dove Cottage

2c. Circular walk high up on hills above around Easedale Tarn including Helm Crag and Sergeant Man

3. Walking around Kentmere and refreshment in Staveley

4a. Ambleside - Wansfell Pike - Troutbeck Circular Walk (Part 1, see below)

4b. Troutbeck Village, Jesus Church, Town End, and walk back to Ambleside (Part 2)

6. Borrowdale - Walla Crag - Derwent Water - Keswick Walk, Lake District

7a. Walking around Buttermere, Lake District * 7b. Autumn Scenes around Buttermere

11. Borrowdale Circular Walk: Seatoller - Rosthwaite - Castle Crag, Lake District

12. A late Autumn walk up Cat Bells, Lake District

14. Windermere, Bowness-on-Windermere & Blackwell House, Lake District

15. Walking around Rydal Water and Grasmere Lake and the Coffin Walk, Lake District

16. Walking in Great Langdale Valley and climbing all the Langdale Pikes, Lake District National Park

17. Climbing Coniston Old Man, Lake District

19. A Circular Walk Around Loughrigg Fell, Loughrigg Tarn and Rydal Hall

20. Skelwith Bridge, Colwith and Elterwater Circular Walks, Lake District

21. Views from Orrest Head, Windermere, Lake District and walking to Troutbeck from Windermere

23. Walking by Windermere and a circular walk from Far Sawrey via Moss Eccles Tarn

31. Brathay Church, Holy Trinity Church

32. Walking around Tarn Hows, Lake District

33. Brantwood House, John Ruskin's House, Coniston, Cumbria

34. The Village of Hawkshead, Parish Church, Cumbria

38. Climbing Scafell Pike from Seathwaite in the Lake District

40. Circular walk from Keswick via the Latrigg viewpoint (includes part of Keswick Railway walk)

41. Circular Walking over Loughrigg Fell from Clappergate and Brathay

42. A 'Railway' walk from Keswick to Threlkeld and the Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum (got the bus back!)

44. Walking from Genridding, Patterdale and Ullswater

46. A climb up Helvellyn from Thirlmere reservoir

50a Wasdale (a) Views of Wasdale, Cumbria, Wast Water, Wasdale Head and other features

50b. Wasdale (b) A Wasdale walk from Greendale over Seatallan and Buckbarrow

50c. Wasdale (c) The Wasdale Headbangers 50th reunion

50d. Walking in Miterdale and the Bower House Inn, Eskdale

51. St Mary's Church and Gosforth Cross in the Cumbrian Village of Gosforth

53. Climbing Skiddaw from Millbeck, Cumbria

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