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"...The Lake District and Cumbria are
dramatic at all levels. From the high tops
with their panorama views to the low levels.
There is the natural beauty of the lakes,
towns and villages. There are ever-changing
colourful landscapes, with blossoming colours,
lush greens in summer, golden autumn tones
and snow top mountains in winter."
You
enter the Lakes District at Kendal, with
its cobbled streets and lots of small interesting
shops.The Lakes themseleves have a number
of quaint and lovely small towns and villages:
Lake
Windermere, the largest and best
known of the lakes.
Hawkshead with its cobbled
streets and associations with Wordsworth's
school daysTarn Hows, perhaps the lake's
most scenic beauty spot.
Coniston
Water and a trip on the steam
yacht Gondola.
Ambleside with its shops,
Bridge House and Stock Ghyll.
Keswick as a base to climb
Skiddaw, or walk round Derwent Water.
Cockermoth and the house
where Wordsworth was born.
Carlisle, the fortified
border city with a castle.
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Keswick
Theatre: Theatre
by the Lake is Cumbria’s year-round
theatre, situated in Keswick - the heart of
the English Lake District. Purpose-built to
house the best in arts and entertainment
Cumbria:There
are many books that will give you a selection
of walks and details of the way. Perhaps the
most famous of the guide authors is Wainwright,
apart from his works on fell walking in Cumbria,
Wainwright also pioneered the Coast to Coast
Long Distance Walk, from St Bees Head on the
Cumbrian coast and wending some 190 miles
across country to Robin Hood's Bay on the
Yorkshire coast. |
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District Lake
district coast aquarium | Lake
District Walks | Pictures
of the Lake District | World
of Peter Rabbit | National
Trust | Westmorland
Gazette | Keswick
Theatre | John
Sandell Pictures of the Lakes |
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