The Lake Wardens Service
In partnership with the Lake District National Park Authority
Rangers and the police we operate as the Lake Patrol Team.
Our role is to advise and educate Lake users as well as
enforcing the bye-laws (follow the link to the
LDNPA
web-site).
We also provide an emergency rescue service under the
co-ordination of the Maritime Coastguard Agency and act as a
Cumbrian Ambulance Service First Responder Team, trained in
defibrillator and oxygen therapy use.
As owners of the bed of the Lake we are responsible for the
administration of moorings and encroachments. We aim to
ensure that the management of the Lake and the adjacent
Council-owned land is carried out in a professional and
business-like manner and where applicable conforms to the
Windermere Management Strategy 2005.
The Public Health Act 1907 requires all commercial hire craft,
carrying 12 or fewer passengers to be licenced. We are the
licencing authority for craft operating anywhere within the South
Lakeland area. Follow the links to
Pleasure Boats and
Boatmans
Licence.We provide RYA powerboat training, up to safety boat standard,
for other agencies including Cumbria Constabulary, Cumbria Fire
Service, the Radio Communications Agency, the RSPCA and the
National Trust.
Facilities
The office at Ferry Nab is open every day except Christmas Day,
opening hours vary according to the time of the year.
Facilties and services include:
- boat registration
- a public launch facility
- assisted launch and recovery
- car and trailer parking
- public jetties
- mast hoist
- picnic area
- hot and cold snacks
- boat and trailer storage
- dinghy storage
- showers
- waste disposal point and a recycling point.
There may be charge for some of these
facilities
Location
The Wardens office is situated at Ferry Nab, about half a mile
south of Bowness-on-Windermere on the B5284. Follow the signs
for Hawkshead via the ferry.
Please use the link to
multimap website for
directions.
Contact Information
Post: Lakes Services Manager, Ferry Nab,
Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria LA23 3JH.
Tel: 015394 42753.