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Places to Visit in Cumbria, England.
Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass
Cumbria and the Lake District is situated just south of the Scottish Borders with Northumberland and Durham to the east and Yorkshire to the south.
Wordsworth and the Lake Land Poets immortalised the views of the Lake District. Each one of the lakes clustered around the rugged heights of the fells is different. From placid Buttermere to lively Windermere, the longest of Lakes and the largest in England, surrounded by forested peaks and ablaze with colour in the autumn.
You can walk these imposing fells, sail Coniston Water on a Victorian steam yacht, or take a rowing boat and relive the adventure of Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallows and Amazons’.
Follow narrow roads edged with dry stone walls to pretty villages, like tiny Sawrey once home to Beatrix Potter, the children’s author whose life and favourite characters are cleverly animated at The World of Beatrix Potter Gallery in Hawkshead. Further to the north is Carlisle, once described as the finest Roman city in England, lying close to the Scottish border and for long centuries riven by battles and border skirmishes.
The Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered a great wall, three meters thick and six meters high, to be built right across England’s North Country to keep out Scotland’s unruly Celts. Much of Hadrian's Wall and forts, like Birdoswald built in AD122 and Housesteads, can be seen today if you follow the wall from Carlisle or from Newcastle lying on the opposite coast.
Cumbria has a myriad of historic houses and heritage sites to discover including Hutton-in-the-Forest (Penrith), Muncaster Castle (Ravenglass), Abbot Hall Art Gallery (Kendal), Blackwell (Bowness 0n Windermere), Wordsworth's House (Cockermouth) and Rydal Mount (Ambleside) to mention just a few.
Carlisle has a 900 year old castle plus an elegant 19th century covered market and the award winning Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery. Here you can not only discover 2,000 years of history but also whether you are descended from one of the lawless Border Reiver families.
Places to Visit in Cumbria
Ambleside
Hill Top
NATIONAL TRUST
Rydal Mount
& Gardens
Stagshaw Garden
NATIONAL TRUST
The Lakes Discovery Museum at The Armitt
Barrow-in-Furness
Furness Abbey
ENGLISH HERITAGE
Bowness-on-Windermere
Blackwell
The Arts & Crafts House
Brampton
Lanercost Priory
ENGLISH HERITAGE
Brough
Brough Castle
Brough Castle
ENGLISH HERITAGE
Carlisle
Carlisle Castle
ENGLISH HERITAGE
Carlisle Cathedral
Cockermouth
Wordsworth's House
Coniston
Brantwood
Grange-Over-Sands
Holker Hall & Garden
Grasmere
Dove Cottage
Hawkshead
Beatrix Potter Gallery
Kendal
Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Kendal
Levens Hall
Sizergh Castle
Keswick
Cumberland Pencil Museum
Mire House
Newby Bridge
Fell Foot Park
NATIONAL TRUST
Newby Bridge (Near )
Stott Park Bobbin Mill
ENGLISH HERITAGE
Penrith
Acorn Bank Garden and Watermill
NATIONAL TRUST
Brougham Castle
ENGLISH HERITAGE
Dalemain
Hutton-in-the-Forest
Penrith Castle
ENGLISH HERITAGE
Ravenglass
Muncaster Castle
Ulverston
Conishead Priory and Buddhist Temple
Windermere
Holehird Gardens
Windermere Steamboats Museum
Workington
Helena Thompson Museum
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