Cumbria

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.

Heron Corn Mill & Museum of Papermaking

Heron Corn Mill is a working, water-driven corn mill; a lowder type with 14ft. high breast shot wheel driving all machinery and a restored 18th Century building.

Highgate Farm & Animal Trail

Lakeland’s No. 1 farm and activity centre. Home of the world- famous sheep racing.

Hoad Monument

Hoad Monument is Ulverston’s most famous landmark. Erected in 1850 upon Hoad Hill, it commemorates Sir John Barrow, a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society and an intrepid explorer.

Honister Tramway

This dismantled tramway (520m above sea level) once ran from Dubs Quarry to Honister Hause. Today, the slate mine is disused, but the old tramway forms the start of the ascent of nearby Haystacks..

Humphrey Head

Humphrey Head is the tallest limestone cliff in Cumbria and from here you can enjoy a fabulous panorama across Morecambe Bay, just three miles south of Grange-over-Sands, Humphrey Head juts into the Morecambe Bay sands.

Jennings Brothers PLC

Jennings Brewery is situated in the shadow of historic Cockermouth Castle. Discover how our real ales are still brewed in the traditional way using pure Lakeland water drawn from the brewery’s well.

Kendal Castle

Kendal Castle stands to the west of the town on a natural high point. The current stone castle was built in the 12th century. The chief remains today are two towers and some of the walling between them.

Kendal Market

Kendal Market takes places every Wednesday and Saturday, from 8.00am to 4.30pm. There is also a farmer’s market (see picture) that travels the county and comes to the town on the last Friday of the month (at the time of writing).

Kendal Museum

Founded in 1796, Kendal Museum of Natural History and Archaeology is one of the oldest museums in the country containing a wonderful and unusual collection of objects and artefacts.

Kendal Parish Church

Visitors to this church are struck by its size and the lightness of the interior. This lightness is due to the unusual construction of 5 aisles, separated by columns and allowing generous window area.

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.