Lake District Travel Guide

"Let nature be your teacher…" Wordsworth's ideal comes true in this region of jagged mountains, waterfalls, wooded valleys, and stone-built villages. The poets Wordsworth and Coleridge, and other Englishmen and women of letters, found the Lake District an inspiring setting for their work, and visitors have followed ever since, to walk, go boating, or just relax and take in the views. In 1951 the Lake District National Park was created here from parts of the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire. No mountains in Britain are finer in outline or give a greater impression of majesty; deeper and bluer lakes can be found, but none that fit so readily into the surrounding scene. More »

When to Go to the Lake District
Top Reasons to Go
Great Itineraries
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Poetry, Prose & the Lakes

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