Historic sites
Hill Top, Beatrix Potter's house
Windermere, Cumbria
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.
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Sizergh
Kendal, Cumbria
A medieval house built around a 14th-century tower, home to the Strickland family for over 700 years.
Historic sites
Wray Castle
Ambleside, Cumbria
A mock-Gothic castle with turrets and battlements on the western shore of Windermere, built in the 1840s for a retired surgeon.