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Wray Castle
National Trust parkland and lakeshore estate on Windermere's western shore. The castle building is closed during its 2026 r...
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Kendal
Art Gallery
Abbot Hall
A major art gallery in a Grade I listed Georgian building beside the River Kent, with historic and contemporary collections...
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Allan Bank
Allan Bank is a museum in Grasmere, offering an engaging way to explore local history, landscape, culture or family activit...
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Ambleside
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Ambleside Roman Fort
Ambleside Roman Fort is a historic attraction in Ambleside, offering an engaging way to explore local history, landscape, c...
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Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall
Barrow Town Hall is the town centre’s defining Victorian landmark, a grand Gothic Revival civic building completed in 1887 ...
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Bowness-on-Windermere
Art Gallery
Blackwell, the Arts & Crafts house
A Grade I listed Arts and Crafts house above Windermere, designed by M H Baillie Scott and presented with original interior...
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Brantwood
John Ruskin's historic home, gardens and arts centre on the eastern shore of Coniston Water, with lake views, exhibitions, ...
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Ambleside
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Bridge House, Ambleside
Ambleside’s tiny 17th-century house built over Stock Beck, one of the Lake District’s most photographed historic landmarks.
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Carlisle
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Carlisle Castle
Carlisle Castle is a historic attraction in Carlisle, offering an engaging way to explore local history, landscape, culture...
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Carlisle
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Carlisle Cathedral
Carlisle Cathedral is a historic attraction in Carlisle, offering an engaging way to explore local history, landscape, cult...
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Keswick
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Castlerigg Stone Circle
One of Britain's most dramatically sited prehistoric stone circles, standing on an open plateau above Keswick with panorami...
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Cockermouth Castle
Privately owned medieval castle at the meeting of the rivers Cocker and Derwent, a major Cockermouth landmark that occasion...
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