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Where's the front door

Bowness on Windermere

(0.6 miles, 1.0 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 from Hammer Bank View Point.

Windermere

(1.0 miles, 1.6 km)

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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Troutbeck, Windermere, Lake District

Troutbeck

(3.3 miles, 5.4 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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Hawkshead interior.

Hawkshead

(3.8 miles, 6.2 km, direction W)

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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Ambleside, Buttercup meadow

Ambleside

(4.8 miles, 7.7 km, direction NW)

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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Misty view from Loughrigg Fell - towards Rydal water

Rydal

(6.4 miles, 10.2 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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Coniston

(6.9 miles, 11.1 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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Elterwater

Elterwater

(7.0 miles, 11.3 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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River Kent in Kendal, Cumbria

Kendal

(7.0 miles, 11.3 km, direction SE)

Sometimes referred to 'the auld grey town' because it was built mainly of grey stone, Kendal is a large Market town in the east of Cumbria...

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Blea Tarn, Little Langdale, Cumbria

Little Langdale

(7.2 miles, 11.6 km, direction NW)

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

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Windermere Boat Museum, Cumbria

Windermere Steamboat Museum

(0.6 miles, 0.9 km)

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Lake Windermere, Summer 2003

Lake Windermere

(1.4 miles, 2.2 km, direction SW)

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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Blackwell - The Arts & Crafts House

(1.8 miles, 2.8 km, direction S)

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Hill Top Farm, Near Sawrey, Cumbria

Hill Top

(2.7 miles, 4.4 km, direction W)

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

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Townend

(3.0 miles, 4.9 km, direction N)

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

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Stagshaw Garden

(4.0 miles, 6.5 km, direction NW)

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

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Stock Ghyll Waterfall Ambleside

Stock Ghyll Force

(5.0 miles, 8.1 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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A lakeland croft in Grizedale Forest

Grizedale Forest Park Country Park

(5.2 miles, 8.4 km, direction W)

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Tarn Hows 5

Tarn Hows

(5.4 miles, 8.6 km, direction W)

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

(6.3 miles, 10.1 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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