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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Clappersgate

  

Clappersgate Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Clappersgate

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You can visit Clappersgate places with Walkfo Clappersgate to hear history at Clappersgate’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Clappersgate has 35 places to visit in our interactive Clappersgate map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Clappersgate, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Clappersgate places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Clappersgate & the surrounding areas.

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35 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Clappersgate tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Clappersgate

  

Best Clappersgate places to visit

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Clappersgate has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Clappersgate’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Clappersgate’s information audio spots:

Foxghyll Country House, Ambleside Foxghyll Country House is Grade II listed on the English Heritage Register. It is a Regency building which seems to have been added to a much older house that was on the site. It was the home of many notable people including Thomas De Quincey.

Scandale Beck Scandale Beck arises in Lake District National Park on Bakestones Moss, west of Kirkstone Pass, and flows south for much of its length of six and a half kilometers. It flows under High Sweden Bridge, a 17th-century packhorse bridge, before turning west for a short distance north of Papermill Coppice. The Rothay flows south to join the River Rothay east of Ambleside before emptying into Windermere, England’s largest natural lake.

Todd Crag Todd Crag is a satellite peak of Loughrigg Fell at 224 m (735 ft) It is not classed as a fell but is a vantage point near Ambleside.

Loughrigg Fell Loughrigg Fell is a hill in the central part of the English Lake District. It stands on the end of the long ridge coming down from High Raise over Silver How towards Ambleside.

Elter Water The name Elterwater means either Lake of the Swan or Lake of Alder. The lake is 1030 yd (930 m) long and varies in width up to a maximum of 350 yd. It has a maximum depth of 20 ft (6.1 m) and an elevation above sea level of 187 ft (57 m)

Rydal Water Rydal Water is 1,290 yards (1.18 km) long and varies in width up to a maximum of 380 yards (350m) It has a maximum depth of 55 ft (17m) and an elevation above sea level of 177 ft (54m) The lake is both supplied and drained by the river Rothay, which flows from Grasmere upstream and towards Windermere downstream. The waters of the southern half of the lake are leased by the Lowther Estate to the National Trust.

Black Fell (Lake District) Black Fell is a fell in the English Lake District. It rises to the north of Tarn Hows, between Coniston and Hawkshead.

Rydal Mount Rydal Mount is best known as the home of William Wordsworth from 1813 to his death in 1850. It is currently operated as a writer’s home museum.

Rydal Hall Rydal Hall is Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England. It has an early nineteenth-century front facade, but includes some earlier fabric. The summerhouse, game larder, and ice house in the grounds of the hall are all individually Grade II*.

The Samling Hotel, Windermere The Samling Hotel was built as a villa in 1780 by John Benson who was the landlord of William Wordsworth. It was the home of several famous tenants over the next century and became a tourist attraction. The ownership of the house remained with the Benson family until about 1960.

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