A 65-foot waterfall crashing through a wooded ravine above Ullswater, often called the most beautiful lake in England. Stone bridges cross above and below the falls, and paths lead up to smaller cascades and on to the fell of Gowbarrow, with wide views over the lake.
It was near here that Wordsworth saw the daffodils that inspired his famous poem. Combine with a trip on an Ullswater 'steamer' from Glenridding or Pooley Bridge.
England's largest national park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of lakes, fells and stone villages that inspired Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter.
A mock-Gothic castle with turrets and battlements on the western shore of Windermere, built in the 1840s for a retired surgeon.
A pretty lake surrounded by woods and fells, with views to the Langdale Pikes and Helvellyn.
The small 17th-century farmhouse Beatrix Potter bought in 1905 with the money from her first books, and where she wrote many of her tales.
A medieval house built around a 14th-century tower, home to the Strickland family for over 700 years.
The wall built across northern England by the Emperor Hadrian from 122 AD to guard the Roman Empire's north-west frontier.
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