Windermere Steamboats & Museum

Windermere Steamboats & Museum is located on a former sand wharf site where, for many years, barges unloaded gravel dredged from the bed of the lake. When this operation ceased in 1975, the Windermere Nautical Trust acquired the use of the site and the Museum was built in 1976-77 with the help of The Maritime Trust and the English Tourist Board. A Steamboat Wetdock has been built over the original sand wharf quay and accommodates up to 15 boats in working order. The `Windermere´ building includes displays of Windermere speed craft, Beatrix Potter´s rowing boat and a special area set aside for the `Swallows & Amazons´ Exhibition. There is also a lecture theatre, which is available for private hire.

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Rayrigg Road,
Windermere
LA23 1BN

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