The Lake District
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1. Abbot Hall
Museum/GalleryThe region's finest art gallery, Abbot Hall occupies a Palladian-style Georgian mansion built in 1759. In the permanent collection are works...Read More
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2. Beatrix Potter Gallery
Museum/GalleryIn the 17th-century solicitor's offices formerly used by Potter's husband, the Beatrix Potter Gallery displays a selection of the artist-writer...Read More
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3. Castlegate House Gallery
Museum/GalleryOne of the region's best galleries, Castlegate displays and sells outstanding contemporary works, many by Cumbrian artists. There's a wonderful...Read More
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4. Hill Top
Historic HomeChildren's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), most famous for her Peter Rabbit stories, called this place home. The house...Read More
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5. Armitt Museum
Museum/GalleryAmbleside's fine local museum is a scholarly place, focusing on influential German artist Kurt Schwitters and Beatrix Potter. Schwitters lived...Read More
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6. Derwent Pencil Museum
Museum/GalleryLegend has it that shepherds found graphite on Seathwaite Fell after a storm uprooted trees in the 16th century. The Derwent company still makes...Read More
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7. Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum
Historic HomeWilliam Wordsworth lived in Dove Cottage from 1799 to 1808, a prolific and happy time for the poet. During this time he wrote some of his most...Read More
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8. Kendal Museum
Museum/GalleryFocusing on natural history and archaeology, this grand, old-fashioned museum details splendidly the flora and fauna of the Lake District. The...Read More
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9. Penrith Museum
Museum/GalleryIn a 16th-century building that served as a school from 1670 to the 1970s, this museum contains Stone Age axe heads, interesting fossils and...Read More
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10. Ruskin Museum
Museum/GalleryThis repository of fascinating and thought-provoking manuscripts, personal items, and watercolors by John Ruskin illuminates his thinking and...Read More
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11. Rydal Mount
Historic HomeIf there's one poet associated with the Lake District, it is Wordsworth, who made his home at Rydal Mount from 1813 until his death. Wordsworth...Read More
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12. World of Beatrix Potter
Museum/GalleryA touristy attraction aimed at kids interprets the author's 23 tales with three-dimensional scenes of Peter Rabbit and more. Skip it if you...Read More
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13. Windermere Jetty
Museum/GalleryRight beside the lake, the center houses the world's finest collection of Victorian and Edwardian steam- and motor-powered yachts and launches...Read More
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