LAKE DISTRICT

Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Abbot Hall Art Gallery provides the perfect setting in which to see and enjoy fine art. It is one of Britain’s finest small galleries with a wonderful art collection and highly acclaimed exhibition programme.

Abbot Hall Park

Abbot Hall Park is situated in Kirkland at the southern end of the market town of Kendal. It is located between Abbot Hall Art Gallery, the River Kent and Kendal Parish Church.

Aira Force

Aira Force is a waterfall situated near the north shore of Ullswater, where William Wordsworth wrote the famous words, I wandered lonely as a cloud.

Armitt Museum & Library Centre

See over 2000 years of local Lake District history at Ambleside’s Armitt Museum and Library. From the Romans to Beatrix Potter along with Ruskin, Wordsworth and Kurt Schwitters.

Belle Isle

Belle Isle is a wooded island in Lake Windermere, landscaped in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The island is one mile long - the longest in the lake.

Blackwell - The Arts and Crafts House

Blackwell, built in 1900, is one of Britain’s most important houses, positioned in a dramatic Lakeland setting overlooking Lake Windermere. It is a rare example of the Arts and Crafts Movement with wonderfully rich interiors that have survived almost entirely intact.

Blindbeck

This stream, probably called ’blind’ because its source is hidden in the rock fissures of Kendal Fell, was formerly the boundary between the borough of Kendal and the township of Kirkland.

Brantwood

Brantwood was the home of John Ruskin from 1872 until his death in 1900 and is regarded as one of the most beautifully situated houses in the Lake District.

Brewery Arts Centre

The Brewery Arts Centre consists of a 350 seat Malt Room for music events (former racking room and cask store), a photographic Gallery (the sugar store), the Warehouse Gallery for visual arts, a drama studio (malt store), art and crafts workshops (brewing room and cooling room), darkroom facilities (hop room), playgroup and meeting rooms, restaurant (malt hopper), Vats Bar, and an enlarged theatre seating 250 which opened on 29 April 1993..

Bridge House

Bridge House was built in the 16th Century in what was then an apple orchard, and constructed originally as a summer house and apple store for the now demolished Ambleside Hall.

Dalton Castle

Dalton Castle is a 14th century tower in the main street of the town of Dalton-in-Furness on the edge of the Lake District National Park. It houses a local exhibition by the Friends of Dalton Castle and a display about the painter George Romney who was a native of Dalton.

Derwentwater

Derwentwater is a 3-mile long lake in Cumbria with a historical and literary background. One of the best ways to experience the lake is on one of the motor launches run by Keswick Launch or, alternatively, by hiring a rowing boat.

Derwentwater Marina

The Derwentwater Marina organises a range of instructional and exciting 1, 2 day or week long courses in a wide range of activities for individuals or groups looking to polish their existing technique or gain grounding in a completely new pastime.

Devil’s Bridge

Devil’s Bridge is a beautiful three-arched 14th Century bridge that spans the River Lune near Kirkby Lonsdale, and is one of the most photographed bridges in the North of England.

Dove Cottage

The Wordsworth Trust was founded in 1891, to secure Dove Cottage ’for eternal possessions of all those who loved English poetry all over the world’.

Dr. Manning’s Yard

Dr. Manning’s Yard, originally known as Braithwaite’s Yard, was the site of a drysalters and dyestuffs business, started by George Braithwaite in 1713.

Eden Ostrich World

For a great family day out, come to Ostrich World, a working farm with rare breeds and masses of ostrich. Feed the animals and meet the ostrich chicks.

Elva Plain Stone Circle

Elva Plain is a small stone circle on the southern slope of Elva Hill near Cockermouth in Cumbria. It’s located in the middle of a field and isn’t easy to find.

Florence Mine Heritage Centre

The Florence Mine Heritage Centre runs along side the Egremont Mining Company to offer underground tours so that our visitors can experience for themselves what it is like to be an iron ore miner.

Gleaston Castle

Gleaston Castle dates back to 1325 and the de Harrington family who lived there for over one hundred years. The castle and estate passed to Lord William Bonvilla and eventually by marriage to Thomas Grey, great-grandfather of Lady Jane Grey, under whose ownership it quickly decayed.

Kendal Town Hall

Kendal Town Hall is a Victorian building with 5 characterful rooms. It has been refurbished to a high standard and is able to accommodate large functions, dances, conferences, workshops, shows, operatic and dramatic productions, coffee mornings and meetings of any size.

Kendal United Reformed Church

Kendal United Reformed Church is a large place of worship in Highgate in the middle of Kendal, tucked away down one of Kendal’s many yards in such a way that many people - including locals - might not even realise that it’s there..

Kentmere Studio Pottery

Set in an idyllic riverside location in the heart of the Kentmere Valley. The studio produces fine ceramics of outstanding quality, created and finished by hand; incorporating fine enamels and lustres, individual pieces and special commissions, all of which are fired many times during the course of production.

Lake Windermere

Windermere is the longest lake in the English Lake District, Cumbria. In fact, at over 10 miles long, it’s the longest lake in England. Its shores are littered with wonderful scenery, walks and picturesque towns and villages.

Lakeland Miniature Village

Visit Cumbria’s only miniature village - over 140 buildings made from local Coniston slate. Houses, farms and barns create the Lakeland landscape.

Lakeland Sheep and Wool Centre

Here is a real hands-on opportunity to meet Cumbria’s most famous residents. Visitors are guaranteed a wonderfully woolly experience as we bring you face-to-face with 19 different breeds of live sheep during our indoor presentation (four times daily).

Latrigg

The walk out to Latrigg will give you some of the best views in the whole of best views England. There are two ways you can tackle the walk. You can start at what used to be Keswick station and walk part of the way on the trackbed of the abandoned railway or you can cheat a little and drive to a car park high on the mountain which leaves you with a ten minute walk to the summit.

Levens Hall

Levens Hall is an Elizabethan mansion built around a 13th Century pele tower. The much loved home of the Bagot family, visitors often comment on the warm and friendly atmosphere.

Little Meg Stone Circle

Little Meg is an irregular stone circle measuring approximately 5 metres across. It is one of the smallest stone circles in Cumbria - so small that it isn’t easy to detect in summer due to being obscured by long grass.

Long Meg and Her Daughters

This is one of the largest stone circles in Britain and well worth a visit. Long Meg is the tallest of the stones at just over 3½ metres, and is situated outside the circle.

Platty+ Watersports

A family-run water sports centre based on the scenic banks of Derwentwater. We offer a range of high quality tuition or hire in canoes, kayaks, sailing boats or our dragon boat.

Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway

The most beautiful train journey in England. Situated in the English Lake District this 15 Narrow Gauge Railway carries passengers from the old Roman Port of Ravenglass seven miles along the Eskdale Valley to Eskdale (Dalegarth) with a journey time of 40 minutes from Ravenglass to Eskdale.

Red Screes

Red Screes looms high above the Kirkstone Inn, the highest pub in England. An ascent of this hill can be tackled either from Brotherswater and Hartsop, or from the Grasmere, Rydal and Ambleside region.

Rydal Water

Rydal is a tiny hamlet between Grasmere and Ambleside in the beautiful Rothay Valley, and was home to William Wordsworth for 37 years. Within the valley lies Rydal Water which, at less than a mile long, might be best considered as a tarn rather than a lake.

Scafell Pike

Scafell Pike is the highest point in England and therefore very popular with walkers. It is 3,210 feet high - just 48 feet above the neighbouring summit of Scafell, although the broken crags of Broad Stand prevent any direct route between the two.

Scale Force

Scale Force lies to the south of Crummock Water, near the village of Buttermere (and close to Keswick). It’s the highest waterfall in the Lake District with a single fall of around 120 feet.

Sellafield Visitors Centre

With interactive exhibits, exciting science workshops, plenty of hands–on fun and Europe’s first Immersion Cinema, Sellafield Visitors Centre is the educational and entertaining day out for budding scientists of all ages.

Senhouse Roman Museum

Part of Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site, the museum is sited on cliffs overlooking the harbour at Maryport. The oldest antiquarian collection in the country, including artefacts from the adjacent Roman fort including the mysterious Serpent Stone, one of the many Celtic religious sculptures..

South Lakes Wild Animal Park

South Lakes Wild Animal Park is Cumbria's unique open zoo and possibly the UK's best wildlife conservation park.

St. John’s Church

Situated in the fells above the valley, St. John’s in the Vale Church has been a centre for worship for over 400 years. The present building dates from 1845 though there has been a church on the site for much longer.

Thornthwaite Galleries

For over 30 years Thornthwaite Galleries has been a ‘country gallery’ and a true centre of excellence for artists exhibiting the very best of painstaking skill and quality in traditional landscapes, still life and figurative sculpture.

Trotters World of Animals

Trotters World of Animals is home to hundreds of friendly animals including traditional favourites, endangered species, birds of prey and reptiles with parts many under cover.

Tullie House Museum

Discover Carlisle’s underground Millennium Gallery with its spectacular mix of traditional and cutting edge works. The story is told in dramatic audio visual display, with striking recreations of long vanished scenes and imaginative hands-on displays.

Ullswater Steamers

Cruise on beautiful Lake Ullswater, situated in the English Lake District, on MY Raven or MY Lady of the Lake, two 19th century steamers converted to oil.

Windermere Ferry

The Windermere Ferry service is provided by the Highways Department of Cumbria County Council. The ferry departs from Ferry Nab, Bowness at approximately 06:50 (08:50 on Sundays) and every 30 minutes until 20:50.

Windermere Lake Cruises

Enjoy some of the Lake District’s most beautiful scenery courtesy of Windermere Lake Cruises. It takes three hours to sail around the whole lake.

Windermere Steamboat Centre

A unique and historic collection of steam and motor boats as well as a ‘Swallows and Amazons’ exhibition and a ‘Motor Boats – You Can Do It!’ exhibition.

Winderwath Garden

A garden of interest to plants-men and families, rockeries, herbaceous borders and mature trees. The garden has a large collection Alpine and Himalayan plants including Meconopsis, Arisaema and other rarities.

Wise Een Tarn

Wise Een Tarn is situated approximately midway between Near Sawrey and High Wray, in the National Trust’s Claife Heights region. This tranquil spot is easily accessible either on foot or by mountain bike, and would make a pleasant day out for anyone staying in the Bowness or Windermere areas since the location is easy by crossing the lake on the Windermere Ferry..

World of Beatrix Potter Attraction

In an indoor re-creation of the Lakeland countryside, discover Peter Rabbit™ eating radishes in Mr. McGregor’s garden; see Jemima Puddle-duck™ amongst the foxgloves; and Mrs.