Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Windermere Station | |
| site name:- | Kendal and Windermere Railway | |
| locality:- | Windermere | |
| parish |
Windermere parish, once in
Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| railway station; station | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD41389864 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD49
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| Opened with the railway 1847. | ||
| 1Km square | SD4198 | |
 Windermere Station -- Kendal and Windermere Railway -- Windermere -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- 1.12.2009 | ||
 Windermere Station -- Kendal and Windermere Railway -- Windermere -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- 3.8.2006 | ||
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Wmd 32 8)
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| County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. | ||
| Windermere Station / S.P. | ||
| placename:- | Windermere Station | |
| railway station | ||
| date:- | 1890=1899 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
| source:- |
Martineau 1855
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| Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-71. | ||
| Page 3:- | ||
| A few years ago there was only one meaning to the word WINDERMERE. It then meant a lake lying among mountains, and so secluded that it was some distinction even for the travelled man to have seen it. Now, there is a Windermere railway station, ... | ||
| The traveller arrives, we must suppose, by the railway from Kendal, having been dropped at the Oxenholme Junction by the London train from the south, or the Edinburgh and Carlisle train from the north. | ||
| date:- | 1855 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s | |
| photographs | ||
| Windermere Station -- Kendal and Windermere Railway -- Windermere -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- 3.8.2006 | |
| Windermere Station -- Kendal and Windermere Railway -- Windermere -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- 3.8.2006 | |
| Windermere Station -- Kendal and Windermere Railway -- Windermere -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- 1.12.2009 | |
| Windermere Station -- Kendal and Windermere Railway -- Windermere -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- View S from the station. -- 3.8.2006 | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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