Destinations

Discover the Lakes

Nine hundred square miles, sixteen lakes and more good walking than one lifetime allows. Here is where we would start.

Windermere

England's great lake, and the quiet shores most people miss.

Slate streets, good food and every fell within reach.

A priory village that eats extraordinarily well.

Wordsworth's valley, and still the most poetic in the Lakes.

The Old Man, the water, and a village that stays itself.

The most dramatic water in England.

Whitewashed lanes and the softer side of the Lakes.

The northern Lakes, and their finest theatre of fells.

The lake at its most sociable.

The valley the mountaineers keep coming back to.