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Tour 2: Keswick-Borrowdale-Buttermere-Whinlatter

Driving
39 Stops
1h 45m - 7d
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Tour Overview

This is a journey to one of the wildest regions of the Lake District. Practically everywhere you stop there are beautiful walks to be had.

On this tour:

Walk through The remnants of a vast forest that once stretched from Scotland to Cornwall

Enjoy the secluded coves of Derwent Water

See the most photographed bridge in the Lakes

Climb the Jaws of Borrowdale

Learn the fox walk!

Climb England’s tallest peak

Scare yourself silly on a 600 metre high ‘infinity bridge’

Hear the Legend of Viking King Buthar

See the tallest waterfall in the Lakes

Go Ape on a high ropes course!

Stops

  1. Covid-19 Update

  2. ESSENTIAL!: How to use the app

  3. A Brief History of Cumbria

  4. Geology of the Lake District

  5. Safety on the Fells

  6. Keswick PUSH PLAY

  7. Stop 1: Beginning of Loop 2: Drive to Ashness Gate Pier

  8. Stop 2: Stop 1: Ashness Gate Pier

  9. Stop 3: Ashness Bridge to Surprise View

  10. Stop 4: Surprise View

  11. Stop 5: Drive to Watendlath

  12. Stop 6: Watendlath

  13. Stop 7: Drive to Grange

  14. Stop 8: Lodore Falls

  15. Stop 9: Right turn to Grange

  16. Stop 10: Stop 2: Grange in Borrowdale

  17. Stop 11: Drive to Bowder stone

  18. Stop 12: Drive to Rosthwaite

  19. Stop 13: Stop 3: Valley of Stonethwaite Beck via Rosthwaite

  20. Introduction to Nature Connection Practice

  21. Nature Connection Practice

  22. Stop 14: Drive to Stonethwaite

  23. Stop 15: Stop 3 ALT: Stonethwaite

  24. Stop 16: Drive to Seathwaite

  25. Stop 17: Seatoller

  26. Stop 18: Drive to Honister Slate Mine

  27. Stop 19: Stop 4: Top of Honister Pass

  28. Stop 20: Drive to Buttermere

  29. Stop 21: Drive to Crag Wood

  30. Stop 22: Layby ahead

  31. Stop 23: Stop 5: Crag Wood

  32. Stop 24: Stop 6: Buttermere Village

  33. Stop 25: Drive to Rannerdale

  34. Stop 26: Right to Rannerdale

  35. Stop 27: Drive to Lanthwaite Wood

  36. Stop 28: Left to Lanthwaite Wood carpark

  37. Stop 29: Stop 7: Walk through Lanthwaite Wood to Crummock Water

  38. Stop 30: T junction after Lanthwaite

  39. Stop 31: Drive to Lorton

  40. Stop 32: Right to Lorton

  41. Stop 33: Lorton Village Shop

  42. Stop 34: Drive from Lorton Village Shop

  43. Stop 35: Lorton to Spout Force

  44. Stop 36: Spout Force to Whinlatter

  45. Stop 37: Next left

  46. Stop 38: Stop 8: Whinlatter Visitor Centre

  47. Stop 39: Whinlatter to Noble Knott

  48. End of Tour 2

  49. Disclaimer

  50. Contributors

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