Tour Overview
Although this can be driven in a day, it's much better to take a few days. In fact, you could fill a whole holiday with the amount of things to do here!
Highlights include:
The highest pass in Cumbria
A haunted pub
The most dramatic ridge walks in Britain
The legend of Dunmail, Last King of The Cumbrians
A dramatic waterfall
The inspiration for the most famous line of poetry in the world
A walk through the oldest woodland in the Lakes
The finest lake (according to Wordsworth)
The oldest working passenger craft in the world
The most dramatically located stone circle in the land
A holy spring
Wordsworth’s home and garden
A dramatic mountain tarn
And enough beautiful walks for a whole holiday!
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Covid-19 Update
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ESSENTIAL!: How to use the app
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A Brief History of Cumbria
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Geology of the Lake District
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The language of Cumbric
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Safety on the Fells
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Stop 1: Beginning of Tour 1
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Stop 2: Layby on the right
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Stop 3: Layby to Townend
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Stop 4: View of mountains
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Stop 5: Left turn to Townend
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Stop 6: Stop 1 Townend
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Stop 7: Troutbeck Village
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Stop 8: Turn left
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Stop 9: Drive to Kirkstone Pass View
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Stop 10: Approach Kirkstone Pass View
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Stop 11: Stop 2: Kirkstone Pass View
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Stop 12: Leaving Kirkstone
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Stop 13: Brothers Water first view
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Stop 14: Cow bridge turn
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Stop 15: Stop 3 Brothers Water
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'Written in March' by William Wordsworth
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Stop 16: Drive to Patterdale
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Stop 17: Turn left for car park
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Walk to Helvellyn via Striding Edge TEXT ONLY
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Stop 18: Drive to St Patrick's and Glenridding Pier
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Stop 19: Turn Right
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Stop 20: Stop 4: Glenridding Pier: Steamboat and Canoes
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Stop 21: Drive to Aira Force
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Stop 22: Stop 5: Aira Force Waterfall
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Stop 23: The Road to Blencathra
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Stop 24: Left onto A66
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Stop 25: Drive to Castlerigg
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Stop 26: 1-25a Left to Castlerigg
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Stop 27: Stop 6: Castlerigg Stone Circle
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Castlerigg Dowsing Exercise
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Leaving Castlerigg PUSH PLAY
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Stop 28: Drive to St John's in the Vale Church
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Stop 29: Turn right
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Stop 30: Approach the gate
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Stop 31: Stop 7: St John's in the Vale Church
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Stop 32: Turn right
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Stop 33: St John's in the Vale: The valley
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Stop 34: Left onto A591
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Stop 35: Thirlmere
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Stop 36: Drive to Dunmail Raise
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Stop 37: Drive to Grasmere & Dove Cottage
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Stop 38: Stop 8: Grasmere
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Stop 39: Easedale Valley walk
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Where to eat
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Stop 40: Drive to Ambleside
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Stop 41: Rydal Mount
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Stop 42: Ambleside
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End of tour 1 PUSH PLAY
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Disclaimer
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Contributors
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