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Tourist Information Centre, Hawkshead

The 505 calls here in both directions: towards Coniston The Crown and Ambleside bus interchange.

Next bus from hereScheduled times are below, by day

Last bus, every day it runs20:43 505 towards Kendal Blackhall RoadSigned off against the operator’s timetable by Lee on 12 September 2026; that timetable runs to 1 November 2026 · every day type

The pin is the stop's recorded position; which side of the road it serves is not in the data, so check the flag. Where the 505 buses are now is on the route page.

Monday to Friday

Towards Coniston The Crown

Scheduled departures, Monday to Friday: the hour, then the minutes past it
Hour	Minutes past
06:00	:42
10:00	:15
11:00	:15
12:00	:15
13:00	:15
14:00	:15
15:00	:15
16:00	:15
17:00	:15
18:00	:15
19:00	:55

Towards Ambleside bus interchange, Kendal Blackhall Road

Scheduled departures, Monday to Friday: the hour, then the minutes past it
Hour	Minutes past
07:00	:20
09:00	:25
11:00	:03
12:00	:03
13:00	:03
14:00	:03
15:00	:03
17:00	:03
18:00	:03
19:00	:03
20:00	:43

Saturday

Towards Coniston The Crown

Scheduled departures, Saturday: the hour, then the minutes past it
Hour	Minutes past
08:00	:35
10:00	:15
11:00	:15
12:00	:15
13:00	:15
14:00	:15
15:00	:15
16:00	:15
17:00	:15
18:00	:15
19:00	:55

Towards Ambleside bus interchange, Kendal Blackhall Road

Scheduled departures, Saturday: the hour, then the minutes past it
Hour	Minutes past
09:00	:25
11:00	:03
12:00	:03
13:00	:03
14:00	:03
15:00	:03
16:00	:03
17:00	:03
18:00	:03
19:00	:03
20:00	:43

Sunday

Towards Coniston The Crown

Scheduled departures, Sunday: the hour, then the minutes past it
Hour	Minutes past
08:00	:35
10:00	:15
11:00	:15
12:00	:15
13:00	:15
14:00	:15
15:00	:15
16:00	:15
17:00	:15
18:00	:15
19:00	:55

Towards Ambleside bus interchange, Kendal Blackhall Road

Scheduled departures, Sunday: the hour, then the minutes past it
Hour	Minutes past
09:00	:25
11:00	:03
12:00	:03
13:00	:03
14:00	:03
15:00	:03
16:00	:03
17:00	:03
18:00	:03
19:00	:03
20:00	:43

Last bus of the day

As timetabled from 27 October to 1 November. Towards Coniston The Crown (505): Tuesday to Sunday 19:55. Towards Kendal (505): Tuesday to Sunday 20:43.

Checked by Lee on 12 September 2026 against Stagecoach's Lakes by Bus Summer 2026 timetable PDF (valid 23 Mar to 1 Nov 2026). Every service signed off from this stop.

Alight here for

Fells whose nearest stop this is, from our own measurement of every fell against every stop we hold; the distance is to the fell’s start as the crow flies, so the walk is longer.

Latterbarrow 60 m as the crow flies
Carron Crag 4.3 km as the crow flies, a walk-in

Walks from this stop

Routes that start within 1 km of this stop, as the crow flies; we hold no walking distance, so the walk to the start is longer.

Planned routes, not walked yet

Hawkshead into the woods

Fells whose page names this stop

Fells whose summit is within 5 km of this stop, as the crow flies.

A day from this stop

Last 505 from here: towards Coniston The Crown 19:55; towards Ambleside 19:03; towards Kendal 20:43 (timetable to 1 November 2026).

Time to the tops

Each route we hold that starts within 400 m of this stop, as the crow flies, nearest first: the time from its start to each top at a steady pace, as the route page gives it, to the nearest 10 minutes. The walk to the start, stops and the weather all add to it.

From the start of Hawkshead into the woods (planned, not walked yet; the start is 60 m from this stop, as the crow flies), at a steady pace:

Latterbarrow, about 2 h

The whole walk takes about 2 h 40 at a steady pace.

If you drive to the bus

The car parks we hold within 400 m of this stop, as the crow flies, nearest first. How long you may leave a car, and what it costs, is on the sign and on each one’s card on the parking map; we do not say it here.

Hawkshead Car & Coach Park 80 m from this stop

Shelter and facilities

The stop itself is mapped as having a shelter and a bench (OpenStreetMap, as of 13 September 2026).

Cafes, pubs, shops and toilets mapped nearby (17)

Mapped as nearby on OpenStreetMap, as of 13 September 2026, within 250 m of this stop (information boards within 150 m; benches and shelter within 50 m):

🚺 Public toilets (~16 m straight line) — Accessible☕ Poppi Red☕ Ginny's Teapot☕ Kittchen (Mo-Su,PH 12:00-20:30)☕ Minstrels Gallery☕ The Old Cobblers☕ Sun Cottage Chippy (food)🍺 Queen's Head🍺 Kings Arms Hotel🍺 The Red Lion Inn🏪 Hawkshead🏪 Stewardsons of Hawkshead🏪 Co-op Food (Mo-Su 09:00-18:00)

Also mapped within reach: 2 information boards, a shelter.

Distances are straight lines from this stop, not walking routes. Opening hours are as mapped and change; none of this is checked daily.

Stop 090079281216. Source: Department for Transport, Bus Open Data Service (GTFS), Open Government Licence v3.0; timetable published 5 September 2026, valid to 31 July 2027, pulled 12 September 2026. Scheduled times only.