Tour Overview
Although this can be driven in a day, it is much better to take at least a few days. If you like big walks, then it could take a week!
The quieter side of the King of the Lakes
Trout-fishing and osprey spotting
Go ape zip wires and rope bridges
A beautiful open-air art gallery in the woods
The best museum in Lakeland
A Viking Meeting point
The steepest road in England
A Roman fort with eagle-eyed views
Britain’s favourite view
The birthplace of British climbing
Neolithic Europe’s centre for greenstone axes
The country’s rock-climbing capital
Plenty of peaks, tarns, lakes and waterfalls in between
Stops
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Covid-19 Update
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IMPORTANT: How to use this 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 3: Bowness-on-Windermere
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Stop 2: Right turn to Windermere ferry
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Stop 3: Stop 1: Lake Windermere Ferry
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Alternative route if ferry is closed PUSH PLAY
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Lake Windermere PUSH PLAY
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Stop 4: Windermere west shore
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Stop 5: Drive to Mountain View
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Stop 6: Drive to Hill Top
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Stop 7: Stop 2: Hill Top
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Stop 8: Drive to Hawkshead
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Stop 9: Approaching Hawkshead
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Stop 10: Stop 3: Hawkshead
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Stop 11: Left turn to Tarn Hows or Coniston
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Stop 12: Right turn to Tarn Hows
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Stop 13: Tarn Hows Parking
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Stop 14: Right at T Junction
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Stop 15: Drive to Coniston Water
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Stop 16: Left Turn
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Stop 17: Stop 4: Coniston Water Via Monk Coniston Car Park
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Stop 18: Stop 5: Coniston Village and Pier
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Stop 19: Leaving Coniston
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Stop 20: Road to Glen Mary
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Stop 21: RIGHT TURN
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Stop 22: Stop 6: Glen Mary Bridge Car Park
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Stop 23: Drive to Langdale turn
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Stop 24: Drive to Little Langdale
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Stop 25: Left turn
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Stop 26: Stop 7: Little Langdale
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Stop 27: Leaving Little Langdale
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Stop 28: Castle Howe
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Stop 29: Drive to Wrynose Pass
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Stop 30: Drive to Hardknott Pass
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Stop 31: The Hardknott Pass
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Stop 32: Hardknott Roman Fort
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Stop 33: Wasdale Head and Wastwater
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Stop 34: Leaving Wasdale PUSH PLAY
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Stop 35: Drive to Blea Tarn
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Stop 36: Stop 8: Blea Tarn
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Stop 37: Stop 9: Langdale View
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Stop 38: Drive to Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel
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Stop 39: Stop 10: Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel and Walkers` Bar
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Stop 40: Drive to Stickle Ghyll car park
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Stop 41: Left turn
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Stop 42: Stop 11: Stickle Ghyll car park
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Stop 43: Drive to Chapel Stile
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Stop 44: Drive to Elterwater
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Stop 45: Right turn
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Stop 46: Stop 12: Elterwater
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Stop 47: Drive to Ambleside
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Stop 48: Ambleside
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End of tour 3
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