Welcome to Visit Elterwater Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Elterwater
Visit Elterwater places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Elterwater places to visit. A unique way to experience Elterwater’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Elterwater as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Elterwater Walkfo Preview Elterwater is a village in the English Lake District and the county of Cumbria. The village lies half a mile (800 m) north-west of the lake of Elter Water, from which it derives its name. Both are situated in the valley of Great Langdale in the Lake District. When you visit Elterwater, Walkfo brings Elterwater places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Elterwater Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Elterwater
Visit Elterwater – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 38 audio plaques & Elterwater places for you to explore in the Elterwater area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Elterwater places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Elterwater etymology
” ‘The lake frequented by swans’, from ON ‘elptr/’alpt’ ‘swan’, in the gen.[itive], sing.[ular] form with ‘-ar’, and ‘water’, probably replacing ON ‘vatn’ ‘lake’ “Whooper swans still winter on the lake”. (ON is Old Norse).
Why visit Elterwater with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Elterwater places with Walkfo Elterwater to hear history at Elterwater’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Elterwater has 38 places to visit in our interactive Elterwater 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 Elterwater, 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 Elterwater places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Elterwater & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Elterwater tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Elterwater
Best Elterwater places to visit
Elterwater has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Elterwater’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Elterwater’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.
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.
Grasmere (lake) Grasmere is one of the smaller lakes of the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria. Lake is 1680 yd long and 700 yd (640 m) wide, covering an area of 0.24 mi² (0.62 km²) The lake is fed and drained by the River Rothay, which flows through the village before entering the lake. The waters of the lake are leased by the Lowther Estate to the National Trust.
Silver How Silver How is a fell in the English Lake District, standing over the village of Grasmere. How, derived from the Old Norse word haugr, is a common local term for a hill or mound.
St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere St Oswald’s Church is in the village of Grasmere, in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
Visit Elterwater plaques
4 plaques hereElterwater has 4 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Elterwater plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Elterwater using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Elterwater plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Elterwater audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Elterwater allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Elterwater’s 38 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Elterwater freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Elterwater Map App
Our visit Elterwater map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Elterwater & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Elterwater tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Elterwater centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Elterwater area at LONG:-3.037741, LAT:54.434222.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Elterwater, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in Elterwater / surrounding areas
● Holy Trinity Church, Brathay ● Rydal, Cumbria ● Skelwith Bridge ● Lakes, Cumbria ● Loughrigg Tarn ● Foxghyll Country House, Ambleside ● Brathay ● Todd Crag ● Loughrigg Fell ● Elter Water ● Skelwith ● Rydal Water ● Black Fell (Lake District) ● St Mary’s Church, Rydal ● Rydal Mount ● Grasmere (lake) ● Kelbarrow ● Silver How ● Dove Cottage ● St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere ● Dale Lodge Hotel ● Grasmere (village) ● Chapel Stile ● Allan Bank ● Elterwater ● Langdale axe industry ● Alcock Tarn ● Nab Scar ● Great Langdale ● Blea Rigg
● Slater’s Bridge ● Lingmoor Fell ● Little Langdale ● Ting Mound ● Elterwater Bridge ● Britannia Inn
Getting to / around Elterwater – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Elterwater using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Elterwater places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Elterwater Public Transport Stations
Elterwater Notable Streets & Road Destinations
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Local Elterwater historians & Elterwater tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Elterwater? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Elterwater’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Elterwater place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Elterwater Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Elterwater destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Elterwater’ web pages (for example: www.visitElterwater.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336