Qualla: Windermere https://qualla.com/windermere en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/v/windermere-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Windermere https://qualla.com/windermere Windermere: Introduction https://qualla.com/windermere/ Photo credit Ericoides, CC BY-SA 4.0. On Saturday 13 September 2008, two thousand two hundred people put on wetsuits, walked into Windermere, and swam a mile. It was the inaugural Great North Swim. The following year, six thousand people did the same. England's largest lake is also, by some measures, its most public - eleven miles long and a mile across at its widest, eleven kilometres of shoreline lined with hotels, slipways, sailing clubs, ferry stops, hire boats, jetties, and conservation workshops. Some lakes are remote. Windermere is the opposite. Every era of British public life in the last two hundred years has somehow ended up here.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/v/windermere-wp/gctv-windermere-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Windermere: A Ribbon Drawn by Ice https://qualla.com/windermere/ Photo credit David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0. Windermere lies in a steep-sided pre-glacial river valley, deepened by successive glaciations. The current lake formed between roughly 17,000 and 14,700 years ago, during the retreat of the British and Irish Ice Sheet, just before the period known as the Windermere Interstadial. ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/v/windermere-wp/gctv-windermere-a-ribbon-drawn-by-ice.mp3 0:06 2 full Windermere: Steamers, Yachts, and the Crowded Surface https://qualla.com/windermere/ Photo credit Enric, CC BY-SA 4.0. The lake has been a tourist destination since the Kendal and Windermere Railway's branch line opened in 1847. Three of the original four large railway-built motor vessels still operate under Windermere Lake Cruises Ltd: MV Tern of 1891, MV Teal of 1936, and MV Swan of 1938. The f...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/v/windermere-wp/gctv-windermere-steamers-yachts-and-the-crowded-surface.mp3 0:06 3 full Windermere: Records, Wars, and a Refugee Rescue https://qualla.com/windermere/ Photo credit Strider52, CC BY-SA 3.0. On Friday 13 June 1930, Sir Henry Segrave broke the world water speed record on Windermere in Miss England II at 158.94 km/h. On the third run, off Belle Grange, the boat capsized. His mechanic Victor Halliwell drowned. Segrave was rescued, but died soon after of his injuries. He...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/v/windermere-wp/gctv-windermere-records-wars-and-a-refugee-rescue.mp3 0:06 4 full Windermere: The Water Quality Fight https://qualla.com/windermere/ Photo credit CrazyHorse2212, CC0. Beneath all this surface life, Windermere has been in serious environmental trouble. In 2021 it emerged that the sewage-treatment plant at Ambleside had discharged untreated sewage for 1,719 hours during 2020 alone, the equivalent of 71 days. Local zoologist Matthew Staniek found...

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