Less than 30 minutes drive from Bowness and Windermere, Colony Country Store offers a range of scented candles, gifts, cards and home accessories. Here children and adults alike can enjoy candle dipping or simply relax in Chandlers Country Café....

Bardsea Country Park, a beautiful wild location on the north side of Morecambe Bay, it’s large woodland area reaching down to almost by the sea. It’s an idea place for walking and spotting flora and fauna. The site of scientific...

Dalton Castle is a 14th century tower in the main street of the town of Dalton-in-Furness on the edge of the Lake District National Park. It houses a local exhibition by the Friends of Dalton Castle and a display about...

Finsthwaite Tower is situated between the small village of Finsthwaite and the slightly larger Newby Bridge. The tower was built to honour the officers, seamen and marines of the Royal Navy who defeated the fleets of France, Spain and...

Gleaston Castle dates back to 1325 and the de Harrington family who lived there for over one hundred years. The castle and estate passed to Lord William Bonvilla and eventually by marriage to Thomas Grey, great-grandfather of Lady Jane Grey,...

Gleaston Water Mill is the ideal place to relax, expore or discover your heritage. While enjoying the food and friendly atmosphere of Dusty Miller’s café, visitors have a unique view of the water wheel gently turning. You can...

High Dam can be easily reached along a well-marked footpath from the National Trust car park that lies below. It is a beautiful tarn and you can walk around it at your leisure. It can also be enjoyed as...

The Lakes Glass centre offers a unique opportunity to visit two working glass factories in one convenient location. Cumbria Crystal produces high quality full lead crystal tableware and giftware whilst Heron Glass specialises in coloured art glass and lighting....

Low Dam is situated just beneath the much larger and more famous High Dam, the main source of water power for Stott Park Bobbin Mill situated further down the hill. It is easily reached from a footpath just to the...

Prepare to be truly amazed! You will not experience anything like this anywhere else in the UK. At South Lakes Wild Animal Park you can watch our tigers climb 20 feet for their dinner, feed giraffes in the summer months,...

St Peter’s at Finsthwaite was founded in 1724 and was originally in the parish of Hawkshead. The church you see today, however, was built in 1873-4, and belongs to the Leven Valley parish. One of the graves in the...