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Days out in AlstonAlston
Days out in AmblesideAmbleside
Days out in Appleby-in-WestmorlandAppleby-in-Westmorland
Days out in AspatriaAspatria
Days out in Barrow-in-FurnessBarrow-in-Furness
Days out in BassenthwaiteBassenthwaite
Days out in BeethamBeetham
Days out in BootBoot
Days out in BorrowdaleBorrowdale
Days out in Bowness-on-WindermereBowness-on-Windermere
Days out in BramptonBrampton
Days out in BroughBrough
Days out in BroughamBrougham
Days out in CarlisleCarlisle
Days out in Cleator MoorCleator Moor
Days out in CliftonClifton
Days out in CockermouthCockermouth
Days out in ConistonConiston
Days out in Crag BrowCrag Brow
Days out in Crosby-on-EdenCrosby-on-Eden
Days out in Dalton-in-FurnessDalton-in-Furness
Days out in EgremontEgremont
Days out in FlookburghFlookburgh
Days out in GilslandGilsland
Days out in GleastonGleaston
Days out in GlenriddingGlenridding
Days out in Grange-over-SandsGrange-over-Sands
Days out in GrasmereGrasmere
Days out in HawksheadHawkshead
Days out in KendalKendal
Days out in KeswickKeswick
Days out in LanercostLanercost
Days out in LortonLorton
Days out in LowtherLowther
Days out in Lyth ValleyLyth Valley
Days out in MaryportMaryport
Days out in MillomMillom
Days out in MilnthorpeMilnthorpe
Days out in Newby BridgeNewby Bridge
Days out in NewtonNewton
Days out in Old HuttonOld Hutton
Days out in PenrithPenrith
Days out in RavenglassRavenglass
Days out in RavenstonedaleRavenstonedale
Days out in SeathwaiteSeathwaite
Days out in SedberghSedbergh
Days out in ShapShap
Days out in Silloth on SolwaySilloth on Solway
Days out in SizerghSizergh
Days out in Temple SowerbyTemple Sowerby
Days out in ThrelkeldThrelkeld
Days out in TroutbeckTroutbeck
Days out in UlverstonUlverston
Days out in WasdaleWasdale
Days out in WatermillockWatermillock
Days out in WetheralWetheral
Days out in WhitehavenWhitehaven
Days out in WigtonWigton
Days out in WindermereWindermere

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Cumbria Karting

As part of our aim at Cumbria Karting is to provide a fantastic experience at a relatively low cost, we take safety very seriously. With this in mind, we do a compulsory driving licence for all children aged 6 - 13. This includes an in-depth safet...

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Windermere and Ambleside (including Bridge House)

Fine varied walking country around popular Lake Windermere. This property includes the beautiful and secluded head of the Troutbeck valley, as well as several sites next to Windermere and six farms. One of these, Troutbeck Park, was once owned by ...

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Penrith and Eden Museum

Penrith and Eden Museum is located at the heart of the busy market town of Penrith. The Museum is located in Robinson's School, an Elizabethan building dating from the mid 1600's and used as a school until the mid 1970s. Inside you can explore the hi...

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A World in Miniature Museum

This truly amazing museum contains one of the world's top three collections of miniatures, from remarkable copies of antique furniture in beautiful tiny room settings, to everyday objects at sizes you just won't believe!
With over 50 tiny rooms t...

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The Dock Museum

The collections held by the Museum Service relate to the history of the Barrow area from prehistoric times to the present day. This section of the website is designed to give a flavour of each of these collections. The Dock Museum currently holds app...

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Dove Cottage, The Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery

Take a guided tour around the cottage where Wordsworth wrote his most brilliant poetry, with stories about daily life there and the antics of many famous people who visited. Entry includes the Wordsworth museum and a gallery showing a changing progra...

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Millom Folk Museum

Millom Folk Museum was started in 1974 and for many years resided in part of Millom's library. During this time, many artefacts, documents and photographs were collected and donated. Due to the small space available at the library, only a tiny portio...

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Lakeland Motor Museum

Welcome! To over 30,000 motoring related exhibits including many reminiscent rarities, tastefully presented in a rather quaint former Shire Horse Stables and courtyard setting. A curious and educational atmosphere generating intrigue and nostalgia....

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Kendal Museum

Founded in 1796, Kendal Museum's fascinating collections include local archaeology, history, geology and a natural history collection from around the globe. We also have a changing programme of temporary exhibitions and displays , events, walks and t...

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Laurel and Hardy Museum

Laurel and Hardy Museum in Ulverston Cumbria welcomes you to the world famous museum devoted to Laurel & Hardy in Ulverston, the town where Stan was born on 16th June 1890. Everything you want to know about them is in the museum. The late Bill Cub...

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King's Own Royal Border Regiment Museum

The King's Own Royal Border Regiment Museum is based on the history of Cumbria's County Infantry Regiment, local Militia and Volunteer units from 1702 to present times. It is housed in Carlisle Castle, which is a magnificent medieval fortress....

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Museum of Lakeland Life

Museum of Lakeland Life in Kendal Cumbria, is award winning Museum takes you and your family back through time to explore the story of the Lake District and its inhabitants. Isolated before the arrival of the railway and motorcar, this area developed...

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RAF Millom Aviation and Military Museum

RAF Millom museum is based upon the RAF Officers Mess set in 25,000 square feet. We have over 30,000 exhibits, Weaponry and Military Vechiles among much more. A great day out for the whole family....

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Senhouse Roman Museum

Set in the stunning location on the cliffs looking over the Solway Firth, positioned next to a Roman fort dated around the first Century AD, then rebuilt whilst Hadrian was in power. The museum houses one of the largest groups of inscriptions and Rom...

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Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery

Tullie House is for children and adults, no matter what your age is you will find something to enjoy. We have hands-on exhibits and games, from climbing our to scale section of Hadrian's Wall to using a roman weapon! Your visit will take you through ...

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Ruskin Museum

The Ruskin Museum holds the most extensive collection in the Lakes of the work of John Ruskin ( 1819 - 1900 ) , one of the greatest and most influential of the Victorians artist's , critic of art and architecture , moral pundit , social commentator ,...

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Hawkshead Grammar School Museum

The museum in the Old Grammar School building in the village of Hawkshead, Cumbria, houses a unique collection of historic artifacts relating to the ancient School, some of which date back to the sixteenth century. All visitors are given a warm welco...

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Guildhall Museum

The Guildhall is a half timbered house on the corner of the Greenmarket and Fisher Street. It was given to the city by Richard de Redeness and was long used as the meeting place of the town's eight medieval Trade Guilds. Four of the Guilds survive to...

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The Solway Aviation Museum

The display of artefacts and memorabilia has a strong local flavour and a wander through the exhibit rooms of the museum rewards the visitor with a fascinating insight into local aviation history.
The early days of flight in the county are recoun...

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Printing Museum

The Printing Museum has a varied collection of printing presses brought together from all over Britain. The building in which the museum is housed dates back to the sixteenth century. In the courtyard, an intersting display of Cumbrian shops is being...

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The Cumberland Pencil Museum

Enter the museum through a replica of the Seathwaite mine where graphite was first discovered 350 years ago. Through words, pictures and carefully restored machinery you can trace the history of pencil making and see how Derwent Fine Art Pencils are ...

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Keswick Museum and Art Gallery

Keswick Museum has been ranked third as one of 'The World's Strangest Museums' on a knowledge website called helium.com.
The Museum tells the story of Keswick and the surrounding area. Keswick has a unique history, with lots of 'firsts', includin...

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Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum

The museum now has a new mining section which has been developed with the help and cooperation of the Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society and a number of individuals.
The Mining Room contains artifacts, plans and photographic records of e...

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Maryport Maritime Museum

The Museum houses a wealth of objects, pictures, models and paintings that illustrate Maryport's proud maritime and painting tradition. The collection at the Museum was initially based on the donations of items by local resident Miss Annie Robinson, ...

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Haig Colliery Mining Museum

Coal mining in Whitehaven dates back to the thirteenth century when the monks from St Bees Abbey supervised the opening of coal mines at Arrowthwaite. This long history ended abruptly in March 1986 when Haig Pit, Cumbria's last deep coal mine, finall...

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The Bond Museum

Welcome to Keswick's most exciting visitor attraction, the James Bond Museum. We opened in April 2009 and have a unique private collection that has taken over twenty years to assemble numerous vehicles and props from the films of everyone's favourite...

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Trowbridge Museum

Trowbridge Museum is housed in what was the last working woollen mill in the town. Salters closed as a mill in1982 and Trowbridge Museum welcomed its first visitors in July 1990. Since then we have received over 500,000 visitors and the Education Off...

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Acorn Bank Garden & Watermill

Delightful sheltered garden, renowned for its herbs and orchards growing old English fruit varieties. In the foothills of the Pennines, with spectacular views across the Eden Valley, this tranquil garden, sheltered by ancient oaks and high enclosing ...

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Beatrix Potter Gallery

Gallery showing original book illustrations by Beatrix Potter, with information about her life. The exhibition of original sketches and watercolours painted by Beatrix Potter for her children's stories changes annually. Also on display are artefacts ...

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Borrowdale

Spectacular and varied landscape around Derwentwater. This is the location of the Trust's first acquisition in the Lake District, Brandelhow Woods, on the lakeshore. Total NT protection in the area today covers 11,806 hectares (29,173 acres), includi...

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Force Crag Mine

As you walk the gently rising mine track from just outside Braithwaite village, it is hard to believe that this beautiful area of the Lake District fells was once the backdrop to a mining industry. Hugging the side of the fell with the winding beck b...

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Buttermere and Ennerdale

Tranquil area of dramatic fells, farms and woodland, encompassing three lakes. This area of 3,588 hectares (8,866 acres) of fell and commonland includes the lakes of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater, 7 farms and woodland, as well as lakeshore acce...

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Cartmel Priory Gatehouse

14th-century gatehouse of medieval priory. Apart from the church, the gatehouse is all that is left of a 12th-century Augustinian priory, which was later strengthened following devastating raids by Robert the Bruce. The Dissolution of the Monasteries...

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Coniston and Tarn Hows

Coniston and Tarn Hows is a landscape of fell, meadow and woodland around Coniston Water. The area looked after by the Trust covers some 2,695 hectares (6,660 acres) and includes 11 farms, the well-known Tarn Hows beauty spot with its magnificent ...

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Dalton Castle

14th-century tower. Located in the main street of the town, the tower contains a local history exhibition organised by the Friends of Dalton Castle.
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Derwent Island House

18th-century house on an idyllic island. This intriguing house, set on an island in Derwentwater, is surrounded by mature wooded gardens and well hidden from the mainland. It reflects a variety of classical styles and has stunning views across the la...

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Fell Foot Country Park

Country park beside Lake Windermere. This Victorian park, restored to its former glory, offers substantial access to the lakeshore of Windermere, where there are leisure facilities in season. Fine picnic areas and rowing boat hire make this property ...

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Steam Yacht Gondola

Rebuilt Victorian steam-powered yacht on Coniston Water. The original steam yacht Gondola was first launched in 1859 and now, completely rebuilt by the Trust, gives passengers the chance to sail in her sumptuous, upholstered saloons. This is the perf...

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Grasmere

Picturesque and varied landscape with Wordsworth connections. The area of 4,925 hectares (12,170 acres) with 10 farms includes the protection of the famous Langdale Pikes. It also encompasses the popular White Moss Common, the glaciated valley of Mic...

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Hawkshead and Claife

Classic Lakeland village. The village, home to the Beatrix Potter Gallery, is surrounded by beautiful scenery, much of which is owned by the Trust. This includes 4 miles of access along Windermere lakeshore from Ash Landing to Low Wray Bay. Claife Wo...

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Hill Top House

Delightful small 17th-century house where Beatrix Potter wrote many of her famous children's stories. Many of the enchanting illustrations for Beatrix Potter's little tales were inspired by Hill Top. It remains as she left it and in each room can ...

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Stagshaw Garden

Steep woodland garden, noted for its flowering shrubs. The garden was created by the late Cubby Acland, Regional Agent for the Trust. It contains a fine collection of shrubs, including rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias. Adjacent to the garden are ...

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Townend

Fine example of Lake District vernacular architecture. Largely 17th-century, the solid stone and slate house is an exceptional survival. It belonged to a wealthy 'statesman' farming family and contains carved woodwork, books, papers, furniture and fa...

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Ullswater and Aira Force

Beautiful lake winding through a glaciated valley, and an impressive waterfall. Dramatic walks around Aira Force waterfall, renowned in Victorian times as a beauty spot, provide one of the highlights of the Trust's ownership in the valley. This total...

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Wasdale, Eskdale and Duddon

Vast area of open country from wild Wasdale to the River Duddon estuary. In Wasdale the Trust owns England's highest mountain, Scafell Pike, and deepest lake, Wastwater, which has impressive scree slopes. Almost the whole of the surrounding mountains...

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Wordsworth House

Fine Georgian town house, the birthplace and childhood home of William Wordsworth. Wordsworth House provides an opportunity to experience something of the Wordsworths' life in 1770s Cockermouth. Following painstaking research the house has recently b...

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Hawkshead Courthouse

All that remains of the 15thC manorial buildings of the village of Hawkshead, once held by Furness Abbey. National Trust property. Key available from National Trust shop in Hawkshead....

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