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. It is kept as she left it, and its rooms, garden and the village of Near Sawrey appear in the illustrations of Tom Kitten, Jemima Puddle-Duck and others.
The house is tiny, so timed tickets are used; book ahead in summer. The Beatrix Potter Gallery in Hawkshead shows her original drawings.
A pretty lake surrounded by woods and fells, with views to the Langdale Pikes and Helvellyn.
A mock-Gothic castle with turrets and battlements on the western shore of Windermere, built in the 1840s for a retired surgeon.
A medieval house built around a 14th-century tower, home to the Strickland family for over 700 years.
A 65-foot waterfall crashing through a wooded ravine above Ullswater, often called the most beautiful lake in England.
England's largest national park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of lakes, fells and stone villages that inspired Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter.
The highest lake in England, surrounded by limestone pavement and moorland in the Yorkshire Dales.
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