The Lake District delights its visitors with a series of superlatives: England’s largest national park, highest mountain, deepest lakes and now a new World Heritage status. One of Britain’s best-loved and most visited locations unveils its secrets. This unusual guidebook explores 111 of the area’s most interesting places, it leaves the well-trodden paths to find the unknown: marvel at a stained glass window which inspired the American flag, let others flock to Hill Top while you explore Beatrix Potter’s holiday home, walk through ancient forest to talk to fairies and swim with immortal fish. Pause to wonder at a stunning lake where a President proposed, view a constellation of stars like nowhere else, find out why exotic spices are used in local cuisine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Lake District delights its visitors with a series of superlatives: England s largest national park, highest mountain, deepest lakes and now a new World Heritage status. One of Britain’s best-loved and most visited locations unveils its secrets. Revised 4th edition. Part of the bestselling 111 series of quirky guides.
Jenkin’s Crag | Ambleside
\nHug the tallest trees in England | 10
\nLow Wood Bay Sculptures | Ambleside
\nLocal fauna in 3D | 12
\nSchwitters at the Armitt | Ambleside
\nDada in Cumbria | 14
\nThe Knoll | Ambleside
\nHome to the first woman journalist | 16
\nArmathwaite Signal Box | Armathwaite
\nColourfully obsolete | 18
\nSarah Losh’s Legacy | Armathwaite
\nItalia in Cumbria | 20
\nArnside | Arnside
\nFish, chips and sunsets | 22
\nLakeland Motor Museum | Backbarrow
\nVroom, vroom | 24
\nStott Park Bobbin Mill | Backbarrow
\n‘Happy hour’ it’s not | 26
\nBassenthwaite Lake | Bassenthwaite Lake
\nBig bird, little fish, and skulduggery | 28
\nSt Bega’s Church | Bassenthwaite Lake
\nIt beggars belief | 30
\nBeetham Fairy Steps | Beetham
\nFolklore on a family walk | 32
\nBlea Tarn | Blea Tarn
\nBucolic Blea | 34
\nBlackwell | Bowness-on-Windermere
\nThe Arts and Crafts house | 36
\nSt Martin’s Church | Bowness-on-Windermere
\nInspiration for the American flag | 38
\nBowscale Tarn | Bowscale Tarn
\nThe legend of the immortal talking fish | 40
\nCaldbeck Village | Caldbeck
\nThe National Park’s first and last village | 42
\nThe Maid of Buttermere | Caldbeck
\nHer beauty was her destiny | 44
\nGreat Holker Lime | Cark-in-Cartmel
\nOne of Britain’s 50 great trees | 46
\nCarlisle Castle | Carlisle
\nA proud gatekeeper | 48
\nCracker Packers | Carlisle
\n‘It’s a Carlisle story, it’s a women story’ | 50
\nFirst African Settlement | Carlisle
\nRethinking Britain’s immigration history | 52
\nTullie House Museum | Carlisle
\nThe old, the beautiful, the bad and the worse | 54
\nTurkish Baths | Carlisle
\nMoorish, and moreish Eighteenth | 56
\nCartmel Priory | Cartmel
\nGive them bread | 58
\nSticky Toffee Pudding | Cartmel
\nKeeping up with the Johnses | 60
\nThe History Wall | Cockermouth
\nGood guys, bad guy and lots in between | 62
\nSquirrels Pantry | Cockermouth
\nTea? One red squirrel or two? | 64
\nThe Bluebird Wing | Coniston
\nA passion for speed | 66
\nTouchstone Fold | Coniston
\nArt bonded to nature | 68
\nThornby Moor Dairy | Crofton
\nA course of cheese, or a cheese-making course | 70
\nFlorence Mine | Egremont
\nA reminder of the area’s mining past | 72
\nMonk’s Bridge | Egremont
\nAka Matty Benn’s bridge | 74
\nEnnerdale Water | Ennerdale
\nTaking the leap | 76
\nEskdale Valley | Eskdale Valley
\nWalker’s paradise | 78
\nHerdwick Sheep | Fells
\nEwe too | 80
\nGosforth Cross | Gosforth
\nLast Viking standing | 82
\nDove Cottage | Grasmere
\nDaffodils are not the only flowers | 84
\nGrasmere Gingerbread Shop | Grasmere
\nThe Gingerbread Woman | 86
\nLoughrigg Fell Trig Point | Grasmere
\nWinning photo opportunity | 88
\nMoney Tree | Grasmere
\nWho said money doesn’t grow on trees? | 90
\nGreystoke | Greystoke
\nA king’s mistress, and much more | 92
\nBrothers Water | Hartsop Valley
\nA haunting name | 94
\nEscape to Light | Haverigg
\nJosefina de Vasconcellos’ final sculpture | 96
\nEsthwaite Water | Hawkshead
\nFisher tales | 98
\nGrizedale Forest | Hawkshead
\nGiants, Ancient Foresters and Clockwork Forest | 100
\nHonister Pass and Mine | Honister Pass
\nFasten your seat belts | 102
\nFarrer’s of Kendal | Kendal
\nCuppa in a TARDIS | 104
\nKendal Climbing Wall | Kendal
\nAll-weather climbs | 106
\nLongsleddale | Kendal
\nPostman Pat was born here | 108
\nLakeland Life & Industry | Kendal
\nA museum in which to walk down memory fell | 110
\nQuaker Tapestry Museum | Kendal
\nStitched to endure | 112
\nSerpentine Woods | Kendal
\nC has a name that means one hundred feet | 114
\nBowder Stone | Keswick
\nDid it fall or was it pushed? | 116
\nCatbells | Keswick
\nWildcat & hedgehog washerwoman | 118
\nCentenary Stone | Keswick
\nA stunning birthday stone | 120
\nDerwent Pencil Museum | Keswick
\nPencil it in for a rainy day | 122
\nGeorge Fisher | Keswick
\nIf the boot fits… | 124
\nLingholm Walled Garden | Keswick
\nPeter Rabbit meets alpacas | 126
\nOsprey Viewpoints | Keswick
\nA natural reality show | 128
\nThe Puzzling Place | Keswick
\nSee it (and have it explained) to believe it | 130
\nRuskin’s View | Kirkby Lonsdale
\nA priceless panorama | 132
\nThe Kirkstone Pass | Kirkstone Pass
\nHear the boos and the wows | 134
\nJohn Wilkinson Memorial | Lindale
\n‘Iron mad’ | 136
\nLacy’s Caves | Little Salkeld
\nWild as a hermit with fish in his hair | 138
\nLittle Salkeld Watermill | Little Salkeld
\nNot run-of-the-mill | 140
\nMaughanby Circle | Little Salkeld
\nA spell waiting to be broken | 142
\nWray Castle | Low Wray
\nBeatrix Potter’s holiday abode | 144
\nKirkstile Inn | Loweswater
\nA fine country inn, indeed | 146
\nLoweswater | Loweswater
\nUntroubled waters | 148
\nSenhouse Roman Museum | Maryport
\nExquisite objects | 150
\nStriding Edge | Patterdale
\nA succession of bare rocks ending in a black tower | 152
\nBrougham Castle & Eamont | Penrith
\nEngland’s birthplace | 154
\nBrougham Hall | Penrith
\nHome to modern arts and crafts | 156
\nDalemain Mansion & Gardens | Penrith
\nToo many jars to keep under Paddington’s hat | 158
\nGiant’s Grave | Penrith
\nViking crosses and hogback tombstones | 160
\nLowther Castle | Penrith
\nWhere there is a ruin, there is a way | 162
\nPenrith, Market Town | Penrith
\nThe ‘Old Red Town’ occasionally glows orange | 164
\nPenrith Winter Droving | Penrith
\nA bit of winter magic | 166
\nWrestling Trophies | Penrith
\nA Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling legend | 168
\nClarkson Memorial Plaque | Pooley Bridge
\nViral support for Abolitionism | 170
\nFish Cross | Pooley Bridge
\nSomething fishy on top | 172
\nSt Michael’s, Barton | Pooley Bridge
\nAncient and architecturally unique | 174
\nRannerdale Valley | Rannerdale
\nLakeland’s secret valley | 176
\nLa’al Ratty | Ravenglass
\nThe Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway | 178
\nMuncaster Castle Raptors | Ravenglass
\nAdorable owls and mighty vultures | 180
\nRavenglass | Ravenglass
\nThe last frontier | 182
\nShap Memorial | Shap
\nA memorial to unsung kindness | 184
\nSmardale Gill Viaduct | Smardale
\nFeats of engineering | 186
\nRSPB St Bees Head Reserve | St Bees
\nSeabird multistorey | 188
\nSt Bees Man Resting Place | St Bees
\nMedieval knight mystery | 190
\nHawkshead Brewery | Staveley
\nSo, that’s how they use all this water! | 192
\nTarn Hows | Tarn Hows
\nMirror, mirror, which is the fairest of them all? | 194
\nRed River | Temple Sowerby
\nA beautiful seat | 196
\nThirlmere | Thirlmere
\nMay the water be with you | 198
\nBurne-Jones’ Vitrail | Troutbeck
\nArtist’s vision for all to admire in Troutbeck | 200
\nAira Force | Ullswater
\nFeel the force | 202
\nHoad Monument | Ulverston
\nUlverston’s pepper pot | 204
\nKadampa Buddhist Temple | Ulverston
\nA Buddhist world peace temple open to everyone | 206
\nLaurel & Hardy Museum | Ulverston
\nA comedy of errors | 208
\nStart of the Cumbrian Way | Ulverston
\nSit on a compass bench or a squirrel bench | 210
\nUlverston Canal | Ulverston
\nThe straightest, the widest, the deepest of them all | 212
\nRB Woodall | Waberthwaite
\nCumberland sausages don’t fear the Wurst | 214
\nSt Olaf ’s Church | Wasdale Head
\nSmall but perfectly formed | 216
\nWastwater | Wasdale
\nThe deepest, the highest, the smallest | 218
\nWhinlatter Forest | Whinlatter
\nPutting the mountain in mountain biking | 220
\nWhinlatter Pass | Whinlatter Forest
\nIn it to win it | 222
\nRum Story | Whitehaven
\nLock, stock and barrel | 224
\nLakeland – the Store | Windermere
\nA Lake District success story | 226
\nOrrest Head | Windermere
\nThe walk that changed a young man’s life | 228
\nLookout | Workington
\nUp for hours, down for minutes | 230<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":51776,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5550],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51775","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-travel","7":"author-by-author-solange-berchemin","8":"publisher-emons-verlag-gmbh","9":"series-111-places","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n