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Storrs Hall

Bowness on Windermere

(0.8 miles, 1.3 km)

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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Windermere Fells

Windermere

(2.2 miles, 3.5 km, direction NE)

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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Anne Tysons Cottage

Hawkshead

(3.0 miles, 4.8 km, direction NW)

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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Troutbeck

(4.3 miles, 6.9 km, direction N)

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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Bluebells

Ambleside

(5.2 miles, 8.4 km, direction N)

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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The Climb to the summit

Coniston

(5.9 miles, 9.4 km, direction W)

There is a timelessness about this pretty village which is set beneath the awesome splendour of "The Old Man of Coniston" towering some 2,500ft above...

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Misty view from Loughrigg Fell - towards Rydal water

Rydal

(6.7 miles, 10.8 km, direction N)

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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Blea Tarn, Little Langdale, Cumbria

Little Langdale

(6.8 miles, 11.0 km, direction NW)

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

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Elterwater

(6.8 miles, 11.0 km, direction NW)

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

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The station house at Torver

Torver

(6.9 miles, 11.1 km, direction W)

The lovely village of Torver is found in rich countryside beside Coniston Water in England's Lake District National Park...

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Blackwell - The Arts & Crafts House

(0.9 miles, 1.5 km)

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Windermere Boat Museum, Cumbria

Windermere Steamboat Museum

(1.1 miles, 1.8 km, direction NE)

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Hill Top Farm, Near Sawrey, Cumbria

Hill Top

(1.5 miles, 2.4 km, direction W)

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

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Townend

(3.9 miles, 6.3 km, direction N)

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

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A lakeland croft in Grizedale Forest

Grizedale Forest Park Country Park

(4.0 miles, 6.4 km, direction W)

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Stagshaw Garden

(4.4 miles, 7.1 km, direction N)

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

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Tarn Hows 5

Tarn Hows

(4.7 miles, 7.6 km, direction NW)

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

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Steam Yacht Gondola

(5.3 miles, 8.5 km, direction W)

Rebuilt Victorian steam-powered yacht on Coniston Water, with the stunning backdrop of Coniston Fells in the heart of the Lake.....

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Canal at Fell Foot,

Fell Foot Park

(5.6 miles, 9.0 km, direction S)

A country park besides Lake Windermere with beautiful displays of daffodils and rhododendrons in season, picnic areas, boat hire,.....

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Stock Ghyll Waterfall Ambleside

Stock Ghyll Force

(5.6 miles, 9.1 km, direction N)

Stock Ghyll Force is a spectacular 70 foot waterfall set in the beautiful picturesque surroundings of Stock Ghyll Woods, near.....

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