A medieval house built around a 14th-century tower, home to the Strickland family for over 700 years. Inside are fine Elizabethan carved oak panelling and portraits, and outside one of the largest limestone rock gardens owned by the National Trust.
It's a good stop on the way into the Lake District. The estate has walks across farmland and woods.
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 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.
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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