Situated on Whitehaven’s striking harbourside, the recently refurbished Beacon is home to Copeland’s treasured museum collection. Journey through the areas rich heritage from pre-history to modern day with items from the museum collection. With three floors full of objects and...

Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Whitehaven, is an educational and informative developing museum based on the local industrial and social mining history. The museum houses the world’s only Bever Dorling & Co. Ltd. winding engines of its kind, one of which...

Burnbank Fell has a height of 47 m (1,559 ft). It is a Wainright located on the far west of the Loweswater Fells. The hill is very grassy with large flanks and a broad ridge connecting it to Blake Fell....

Elva Plain is a small stone circle on the southern slope of Elva Hill near Cockermouth in Cumbria. It’s located in the middle of a field and isn’t easy to find. The 15 stones that make up the circle...

The Florence Mine Heritage Centre runs along side the Egremont Mining Company to offer underground tours so that our visitors can experience for themselves what it is like to be an iron ore miner. The centre holds a large collection...

Gavel Fell has a height of 526m (1,725 ft). It is a Wainright formed from rocks of the Kirk Stile formation, much akin to the Skiddaw range. Views from the summit present great easterly sights of the Grasmoor range but,...

Great Borne has a height of 616m (2,021 ft) yet is a rather secluded Wainright. Situated along the ridge which divides the Ennerdale and Buttermere valleys, its most distinguishing features are its southern slopes that fall towards Ennerdale Water; these...

Grike has a height of 488m (1,601 ft) and is one of the Wainrights. The summit is home to a massive stone cairn which lends the fell its alternative local name, Stone Man. In the past the fell saw significant...

The Helena Thompson Museum was originally a house known as Park End, where Helena Thompson lived for most of her life. The beautiful property and exquisite contents was gifted to the community after her death, under the condition that...

Lank Rigg has a height of 541 m (1,775 ft) - it is a Wainright with gentle grassy slopes and can be climbed from various points along Coldfell Road. The summit bears various remains from ancient habitation and to mark...

Lowes Court Gallery displays contemporary and traditional art and craft by artists from Cumbria and bordering counties. The Gallery, an 18th century listed building houses an attractive display area with a well-stocked gift shop below selling local hand made crafts...

Scale Force lies to the south of Crummock Water, near the village of Buttermere (and close to Keswick). It’s the highest waterfall in the Lake District with a single fall of around 120 feet. The waterfall - or ’force’...