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From London Euston get a Glasgow train that stops at Oxenholme:
The nearest mainline station to Monk Coniston is Windermere.
Usually this involves changing trains at Oxenholme for the branch line to Windermere (I have put more information about Oxenholme station on the page here). These trains are sometimes quite crowded in summer. A few of these branch line trains go from Lancaster or Preston, if so it may be worth changing there to get a seat.
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The 505 bus goes from Ambleside to the stop outside Monk Coniston. To get to Ambleside the 555 bus stops at Lancaster, Kendal, Windermere and Keswick.
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Route Via Windermere
Changing trains at Oxenholme:
If there is a long wait at Oxenholme then David Willan is just outside the station. It sells home made cakes, pasties and pies and hot/cold drinks. It has no indoor seats and only a few seats outside.
The 555 stops outside the station at Windermere, this goes to Keswick but get off at Ambleside (make sure you don't get the bus in the other direction back to Kendal and Lancaster).
At Ambleside change to the 505 bus.
Route Via Oxenholme
An alternative, for instance if you are stopping over at Premier Inn or Traveloge in Kendal, is to catch the 41/41a bus from Oxenholme to Kendal.
This is a circular route so you can catch it in either direction.
To catch the 41/41a bus goes from the stop where the underpass comes out on the West side of the station:
The 41A is on this side of the road:
The bus interchange at Kendal:
As above, change to the 505 at Ambleside for Monk Coniston.
Bus Stop at Monk Coniston
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