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Under Loughrigg Ambleside

Ambleside

(0.8 miles, 1.3 km)

Ambleside, meaning "Shieling" or summer pasture by the riverbank, lies next to the northern shore of Lake Windermere. A busy victorian town ideal as a base when visiting the Lake District..

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Rydal Water

Rydal

(1.6 miles, 2.6 km, direction NW)

Rydal in the lake district will be forever associated with the poet William Wordsworth who lived here and whose works reflect the beautiful landscape that so vividly captured his imagination almost from the moment he was born...

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Troutbeck, Windermere, Lake District

Troutbeck

(1.9 miles, 3.1 km, direction SE)

A village that is spread along an old valley road for around one and a half miles. Lots of charm and old cottages, surrounded by beautiful lakeland countryside. Beatrix Potter.....

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Helm Crag, Grasmere

Grasmere

(3.6 miles, 5.8 km, direction NW)

This tiny stone village is beautifully set between the tranquil waters of Grasmere Lake and the jagged heights of Helm Crag and Nab Scar..

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Leaping fish

Elterwater

(3.8 miles, 6.1 km, direction W)

Elterwater is barely 200ft above sea level, it is picturesquely set beneath the glories of the Langdale Pikes..

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On the road to Windermere

Windermere

(4.1 miles, 6.7 km, direction SE)

Lake Windermere is England's largest lake, and one of it's most popular with visitors. It is 10.5 miles long and approx 1 mile wide. The water of the lake reaches a depth of.....

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Little Langdale

Little Langdale

(4.7 miles, 7.5 km, direction W)

Little Langdale is a delightful hamlet in a hauntingly beautiful area lying above the Furness Fells...

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Hawkshead Church

Hawkshead

(4.9 miles, 7.9 km, direction SW)

The pretty village of Hawkshead is full of old-world picturesque charm throughout its traffic-free streets where one can roam freely to investigate all it has to offer in the way.....

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Lake Windemere. Bowness. 04 Feb 2006

Bowness on Windermere

(5.4 miles, 8.6 km, direction S)

This is the principal resort on Lake Windermere, it is a town crammed with quaint narrow streets jammed full of summer tourists which sprawls along the shores of the lake somewhere between Waterhead and Lakeside...

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Lanty's Tarn, Keidas, Patterdale Cumbria

Patterdale

(6.9 miles, 11.1 km, direction N)

The village of Patterdale is a well known vantage point at the head of Ulleswater, close to Brotherswater...

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Stagshaw Garden

(1.4 miles, 2.2 km, direction S)

Steep woodland garden, noted for its flowering shrubs, created by the late Cubby Acland, Regional Agent for the Trust...

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Townend

(2.2 miles, 3.5 km, direction SE)

17th-century Lake District stone and slate house, former home of a wealthy farming family...

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Cloudy on the Kirkstone Pass

Kirkstone Pass

(2.9 miles, 4.7 km, direction N)

Kirkstone Pass in the Lake District is famous for its iconic view on the road to Ullswater from the town of Ambleside. There is.....

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Dove Cottage in Grasmere. The one time home of the Poet William Wordsworth

Dove Cottage

(3.1 miles, 5.0 km, direction NW)

Dove cottage in the Lake District is the former home of the poet William Wordsworth and is where he wrote much of his famous.....

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Tarn Hows 5

Tarn Hows

(4.7 miles, 7.6 km, direction SW)

This exceptional magical landscape is known as Beatrix Potter Country. For it is here amongst Lakeland's magnificent tarns and.....

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Windermere Boat Museum, Cumbria

Windermere Steamboat Museum

(4.7 miles, 7.6 km, direction S)

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Brothers Water from Kirkstone Pass, English Lakes. September 2006. Cannon Powershot 400

Brothers Water

(4.9 miles, 7.9 km, direction N)

Dorothy Wordsworth (c.1771-1855, diarist, poet, sister of William ) referred to it as "..the glittering lively lake..". The.....

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Lake Windermere, Summer 2003

Lake Windermere

(5.6 miles, 9.1 km, direction S)

This is the Lake District National Park's most dazzling resort as well as being England's largest natural lake. It is surrounded.....

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Hill Top Farm, Near Sawrey, Cumbria

Hill Top

(5.9 miles, 9.5 km, direction S)

The Farmhouse in the Lake District where Beatrix Potter wrote many of her children's stories..

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The Lake District

The Lake District

(5.9 miles, 9.6 km, direction NW)

I first saw the Lake District many years ago, when for eight out of my eleven day sojourn, it rained, and rained! None-the-less,.....

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