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Town Postcode Town Postcode Information Sites/Points Kendal Central Car Park CA15 6QQ * LA9 5AL Alston Shakespeare Inn, Highgate LA94HE South Tynedale Railway Car Park CA9 3JB Blackhall Road Car Park LA9 4BT • Alston TIC 01434 382244 Ambleside K Village Outlet Centre LA9 7SH Waterhead LA22 0EN Lakes Leisure (for K Village) LA9 7HX • Ambleside TIC 0844 225 0544 #cumbria4coaches Kelsick Road/Rothay Road LA22 0BZ LA9 5AY • Appleby TIC 017683 51177 Low Fold LA22 0ND Kendal Town Football Club LA9 7BL • Bowness on Windermere IC 0845 901 0845 Rothay Holme LA22 0EE Keswick • Brampton TIC 01697 73433 Appleby *Booths Supermarket Car Park CA12 5EA • , the Lake District VC 015394 46603 Boroughgate (on-street coach bays). CA16 6XE Lakeside CA12 5DJ Battlebarrow CA16 6XR Kirkby Lonsdale • Broughton in Furness TIC 01229 716115 Barrow-in-Furness Devil's Bridge LA6 2DF EXPLORE THE WALLED GARDENS • Carlisle TIC 01228 598596 Holywood Park LA14 1YD Dodgson Croft LA6 2HG • Cockermouth TIC 01900 822634 The Dock Museum LA14 2PW The Square LA6 2AN HADRIANS WALL, BIRDOSWALD • Coniston TIC 015394 41533 Town Hall (opp Imperial Hotel) LA14 2LG Faraday Road, near the Auction Mart CA17 4QL • Egremont TIC 015394 41533 Bowness-on-Windermere *Rectory Road (for ) LA23 3HQ Maryport • Grange over Sands TIC 015395 34026 Glebe Road LA23 3HE The Wave CA15 8AD • Grizedale Forest VC 01229 860010 Bowness Pier LA23 3HJ Lake District Coast Aquarium CA15 8AB • Hawkshead TIC 015394 36945 Brampton Newby Bridge/Lakeside • Kendal & TIC 01539 735891 Union Lane Car Park CA8 1BX * LA12 8NN Talkin Tarn CA8 1BHN *Lakeside LA12 8AS • Keswick TIC 0845 901 0845 Broughton-in-Furness *Lakes Aquarium LA12 8AS • Kirkby Lonsdale TIC 015242 71437 Station Road LA20 6HN Penrith • Kirkby Stephen - Upper Eden VC 017683 71199 The Square LA20 6JB Sandgate CA11 7TP • Lanercost VC 016977 41267 Carlisle Squares Retail Park CA11 8NH Devonshire Walk CA3 8UL • Penrith TIC 01768 867466 Upper Viaduct Car Park CA3 8AJ Village Car Park CA18 1SQ • Rheged (Cumbria Info) 01768 860034 Tullie House CA3 8TP *Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway CA18 1SN • Sedbergh TIC 015396 20125 Bridge Street CA2 5SX Sedbergh • Silloth TIC ( DC) 016973 31944 Warwick Road CA1 2SB Joss Lane LA10 5AS Cartmel Settlebeck High School (outside school term) LA10 5JJ TAKE A FRESH LOOK AT GROUP VISITS TO • TIC at Glenridding 0845 901 0845 Racecourse LA11 6QB Silloth • Windermere & Lake District TIC 015394 46499 Cockermouth *Solway Coast Discovery Centre CA7 4DD THE LAKE DISTRICT, CUMBRIA AT WWW.CUMBRIA4COACHES.CO.UK Wakefield Road CA13 0HG Marshall Dock CA74AB Coniston Criffel Street CA7 4AB Main Car Park LA21 8EH School (outside school term) LA21 8EW Foreshore CA27 0BD Glenridding Ulverston Genridding Car Park CA11 0PD King Street LA12 7DZ Grange-over-Sands The Gill LA12 7BN Windermere Road LA11 6EG Victoria Road LA12 0BT Berners Close LA11 7DQ Booths Supermarket Car Park LA12 7LB Grasmere To order more copies of this guide or to sign up to Stock Lane LA22 9SJ South Shore CA28 7LY receive e-newsletters about the area please visit: White Moss Common (East) LA22 9SE Lowther Street CA28 7JS Stickle Ghyll LA22 9JY Strand Street CA28 7LF Hawkshead Windermere wwwcumbria4coaches.co.uk For full details of coach parking please visit Village Car Park LA22 ONT *Brockhole, Lake District Visitors Centre. LA23 1LJ www.cumbria4coaches.co.uk Workington *No charge for coach parking when visiting the attraction/venue: pre-booking preferred. Drop off points. Derwent Street CA14 2DS 40763165732.pdf 1 26/07/2013 14:14:53

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h a This map is reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright. n n Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. (Licence No: 100019596) (2013). e l All reasonable care has been taken that the information published is accurate at time of publishing. Please do not rely on satellite navigation systems as these may direct you onto a route with limited access.

Roads with bends, gradients or restricted width which require additional consideration and caution. DISTANCES A591 Bothel to Keswick: very narrow at Mirehouse. village until the road approaches Bowness-on-Windermere. APPLEBY 35 ALSTON A592 : caution needed as large vehicles A5084 Ulvertson to : Very narrow at Water Yeat. Bad 42 53 AMBLESIDE cannot pass one another on several stretches on both sides bend approaching Torver. 62 87 32 BARROW-IN-FURNESS of A5086 Egremont to Cockermouth: Narrow in places. 46 57 6 26 BOWNESS-ON-WINDERMERE the pass. Caution needed. 39 19 58 93 63 BRAMPTON A593 Ambleside to Coniston: between and 59 85 26 20 21 82 BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS A5091 Matterdale to Ullswater: Very narrow between Dockray 45 69 22 22 16 75 18 CARK-IN-CARTMEL Bridge narrow with passing places. Narrow over and Matterdale. bridge. Special care needed between and 32 28 52 85 55 10 81 68 CARLISLE Coniston. A5092 Duddon Bridge: Traffic light controlled bridge, then 43 50 31 62 36 35 50 52 26 COCKERMOUTH extreme care from bridge through Duddon Bridge Farm and up 55 59 8 24 13 61 37 29 60 37 CONISTON A595 Dalton to Silecroft: From Kirkby-in-Furness very Buckman Brow Hill. 41 48 4 36 10 54 31 26 49 27 8 GRASMERE narrow 50 58 5 28 10 70 28 26 57 35 11 9 HAWKSHEAD to Grizebeck, particular care over last quarter mile into B5285 Coniston to Hawkshead and Hawkshead to 36 52 14 35 11 58 30 18 52 44 21 18 18 KENDAL Grizebeck. Between The Green and Silecroft care needed. Clappersgate: Due to difficulties when encountering oncoming 29 36 16 47 22 41 45 37 36 15 21 13 21 29 KESWICK traffic drivers are encouraged to travel from Coniston to 48 58 26 40 23 65 35 23 60 69 33 30 30 14 42 KIRKBY LONSDALE A684 Kendal to Sedbergh: Low bridge when leaving Kendal Hawkshead and not the other way round. 12’ 3” - follow signed large vehicle route. Hairpin bend on hill. 63 70 14 19 9 75 16 9 70 45 18 19 19 17 30 23 LAKESIDE Over motorway down to Bridge extreme care Approximately 1 mile after leaving Coniston the road narrows 51 55 38 70 44 37 51 59 28 8 53 34 44 51 22 77 52 MARYPORT needed as this bridge is very narrow. through a series of bends where it is not possible to pass other 14 20 33 64 38 27 68 51 22 31 38 29 37 29 17 40 51 38 PENRITH vehicles. Extreme caution needed along all of this route. 47 51 50 83 65 33 63 84 23 20 67 46 56 80 34 73 65 12 35 SILLOTH A5074 Gilpin Bridge to Bowness-on-Windermere: Road 65 77 22 10 16 83 11 11 77 52 14 26 26 24 37 30 9 59 58 71 ULVERSTON starts wide and flat but narrows extremely as soon as road B5289 : This is not recommended for vehicles over 57 64 45 56 50 47 57 53 39 15 45 40 59 58 27 83 51 16 45 27 48 WHITEHAVEN begins to climb after approximately 1.5 miles. 32 56 5 27 1 58 25 17 57 35 12 9 9 9 21 21 10 43 37 55 17 49 WINDERMERE Very narrow past Damson Dene Hotel and through Winster 51 57 38 60 44 41 44 59 33 8 43 34 43 52 22 76 52 7 38 19 58 9 42 WORKINGTON