• The ultimate insider's guide to the Lake District
• Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides
• Part of the international 111 Places series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide
• Appeals to both the local market (over 41,000 people call the Lake District home) and the tourist market (more than 18 million people visit the Lake District every year!)
• Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs
• Revised and updated edition
The Lake District delights its visitors with a series of superlatives: England's largest national park, highest mountain, deepest lakes and now a new World Heritage status. One of Britain's best-loved and most visited locations unveils its secrets. This unusual guidebook explores 111 of the area's most interesting places, it leaves the well-trodden paths to find the unknown: marvel at a stained glass window which inspired the American flag, let others flock to Hill Top while you explore Beatrix Potter's holiday home, walk through ancient forest to talk to fairies and swim with immortal fish. Pause to wonder at a stunning lake where a President proposed, view a constellation of stars like nowhere else, find out why exotic spices are used in local cuisine.
Jenkins Crag | Ambleside
Hug the tallest trees in England | 10
Low Wood Bay Sculptures | Ambleside
Local fauna in 3D | 12
Schwitters at the Armitt | Ambleside
Dada in Cumbria | 14
The Knoll | Ambleside
Home to the first woman journalist | 16
Armathwaite Signal Box | Armathwaite
Colourfully obsolete | 18
Sarah Loshs Legacy | Armathwaite
Italia in Cumbria | 20
Arnside | Arnside
Fish, chips and sunsets | 22
Lakeland Motor Museum | Backbarrow
Vroom, vroom | 24
Stott Park Bobbin Mill | Backbarrow
Happy hour its not | 26
Bassenthwaite Lake | Bassenthwaite Lake
Big bird, little fish, and skulduggery | 28
St Begas Church | Bassenthwaite Lake
It beggars belief | 30
Beetham Fairy Steps | Beetham
Folklore on a family walk | 32
Blea Tarn | Blea Tarn
Bucolic Blea | 34
Blackwell | Bowness-on-Windermere
The Arts and Crafts house | 36
St Martins Church | Bowness-on-Windermere
Inspiration for the American flag | 38
Bowscale Tarn | Bowscale Tarn
The legend of the immortal talking fish | 40
Caldbeck Village | Caldbeck
The National Parks first and last village | 42
The Maid of Buttermere | Caldbeck
Her beauty was her destiny | 44
Great Holker Lime | Cark-in-Cartmel
One of Britains 50 great trees | 46
Carlisle Castle | Carlisle
A proud gatekeeper | 48
Cracker Packers | Carlisle
Its a Carlisle story, its a women story | 50
First African Settlement | Carlisle
Rethinking Britains immigration history | 52
Tullie House Museum | Carlisle
The old, the beautiful, the bad and the worse | 54
Turkish Baths | Carlisle
Moorish, and moreish Eighteenth | 56
Cartmel Priory | Cartmel
Give them bread | 58
Sticky Toffee Pudding | Cartmel
Keeping up with the Johnses | 60
The History Wall | Cockermouth
Good guys, bad guy and lots in between | 62
Squirrels Pantry | Cockermouth
Tea? One red squirrel or two? | 64
The Bluebird Wing | Coniston
A passion for speed | 66
Touchstone Fold | Coniston
Art bonded to nature | 68
Thornby Moor Dairy | Crofton
A course of cheese, or a cheese-making course | 70
Florence Mine | Egremont
A reminder of the areas mining past | 72
Monks Bridge | Egremont
Aka Matty Benns bridge | 74
Ennerdale Water | Ennerdale
Taking the leap | 76
Eskdale Valley | Eskdale Valley
Walkers paradise | 78
Herdwick Sheep | Fells
Ewe too | 80
Gosforth Cross | Gosforth
Last Viking standing | 82
Dove Cottage | Grasmere
Daffodils are not the only flowers | 84
Grasmere Gingerbread Shop | Grasmere
The Gingerbread Woman | 86
Loughrigg Fell Trig Point | Grasmere
Winning photo opportunity | 88
Money Tree | Grasmere
Who said money doesnt grow on trees? | 90
Greystoke | Greystoke
A kings mistress, and much more | 92
Brothers Water | Hartsop Valley
A haunting name | 94
Escape to Light | Haverigg
Josefina de Vasconcellos final sculpture | 96
Esthwaite Water | Hawkshead
Fisher tales | 98
Grizedale Forest | Hawkshead
Giants, Ancient Foresters and Clockwork Forest | 100
Honister Pass and Mine | Honister Pass
Fasten your seat belts | 102
Farrers of Kendal | Kendal
Cuppa in a TARDIS | 104
Kendal Climbing Wall | Kendal
All-weather climbs | 106
Longsleddale | Kendal
Postman Pat was born here | 108
Lakeland Life & Industry | Kendal
A museum in which to walk down memory fell | 110
Quaker Tapestry Museum | Kendal
Stitched to endure | 112
Serpentine Woods | Kendal
C has a name that means one hundred feet | 114
Bowder Stone | Keswick
Did it fall or was it pushed? | 116
Catbells | Keswick
Wildcat & hedgehog washerwoman | 118
Centenary Stone | Keswick
A stunning birthday stone | 120
Derwent Pencil Museum | Keswick
Pencil it in for a rainy day | 122
George Fisher | Keswick
If the boot fits | 124
Lingholm Walled Garden | Keswick
Peter Rabbit meets alpacas | 126
Osprey Viewpoints | Keswick
A natural reality show | 128
The Puzzling Place | Keswick
See it (and have it explained) to believe it | 130
Ruskins View | Kirkby Lonsdale
A priceless panorama | 132
The Kirkstone Pass | Kirkstone Pass
Hear the boos and the wows | 134
John Wilkinson Memorial | Lindale
Iron mad | 136
Lacys Caves | Little Salkeld
Wild as a hermit with fish in his hair | 138
Little Salkeld Watermill | Little Salkeld
Not run-of-the-mill | 140
Maughanby Circle | Little Salkeld
A spell waiting to be broken | 142
Wray Castle | Low Wray
Beatrix Potters holiday abode | 144
Kirkstile Inn | Loweswater
A fine country inn, indeed | 146
Loweswater | Loweswater
Untroubled waters | 148
Senhouse Roman Museum | Maryport
Exquisite objects | 150
Striding Edge | Patterdale
A succession of bare rocks ending in a black tower | 152
Brougham Castle & Eamont | Penrith
Englands birthplace | 154
Brougham Hall | Penrith
Home to modern arts and crafts | 156
Dalemain Mansion & Gardens | Penrith
Too many jars to keep under Paddingtons hat | 158
Giants Grave | Penrith
Viking crosses and hogback tombstones | 160
Lowther Castle | Penrith
Where there is a ruin, there is a way | 162
Penrith, Market Town | Penrith
The Old Red Town occasionally glows orange | 164
Penrith Winter Droving | Penrith
A bit of winter magic | 166
Wrestling Trophies | Penrith
A Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling legend | 168
Clarkson Memorial Plaque | Pooley Bridge
Viral support for Abolitionism | 170
Fish Cross | Pooley Bridge
Something fishy on top | 172
St Michaels, Barton | Pooley Bridge
Ancient and architecturally unique | 174
Rannerdale Valley | Rannerdale
Lakelands secret valley | 176
Laal Ratty | Ravenglass
The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway | 178
Muncaster Castle Raptors | Ravenglass
Adorable owls and mighty vultures | 180
Ravenglass | Ravenglass
The last frontier | 182
Shap Memorial | Shap
A memorial to unsung kindness | 184
Smardale Gill Viaduct | Smardale
Feats of engineering | 186
RSPB St Bees Head Reserve | St Bees
Seabird multistorey | 188
St Bees Man Resting Place | St Bees
Medieval knight mystery | 190
Hawkshead Brewery | Staveley
So, thats how they use all this water! | 192
Tarn Hows | Tarn Hows
Mirror, mirror, which is the fairest of them all? | 194
Red River | Temple Sowerby
A beautiful seat | 196
Thirlmere | Thirlmere
May the water be with you | 198
Burne-Jones Vitrail | Troutbeck
Artists vision for all to admire in Troutbeck | 200
Aira Force | Ullswater
Feel the force | 202
Hoad Monument | Ulverston
Ulverstons pepper pot | 204
Kadampa Buddhist Temple | Ulverston
A Buddhist world peace temple open to everyone | 206
Laurel & Hardy Museum | Ulverston
A comedy of errors | 208
Start of the Cumbrian Way | Ulverston
Sit on a compass bench or a squirrel bench | 210
Ulverston Canal | Ulverston
The straightest, the widest, the deepest of them all | 212
RB Woodall | Waberthwaite
Cumberland sausages dont fear the Wurst | 214
St Olaf s Church | Wasdale Head
Small but perfectly formed | 216
Wastwater | Wasdale
The deepest, the highest, the smallest | 218
Whinlatter Forest | Whinlatter
Putting the mountain in mountain biking | 220
Whinlatter Pass | Whinlatter Forest
In it to win it | 222
Rum Story | Whitehaven
Lock, stock and barrel | 224
Lakeland the Store | Windermere
A Lake District success story | 226
Orrest Head | Windermere
The walk that changed a young mans life | 228
Lookout | Workington
Up for hours, down for minutes | 230
Solange Berchemin was 18 when she travelled solo to the other side of the world, four years later, her partner took her to visit the Lake District. It was love at first sight. She has always enjoyed words and has a passion for people's stories. If there is a story somewhere she will find it. Ten years ago, after an atypical career path which led her to pick cotton in Greece and manage the largest languages department in London (not at the same time), she turned to writing. Columnist for the Greenwich Visitor, her articles have appeared in national and international publications such as The Toronto Star, BBC Good Food, The Sunday Times. She writes a blog and is the author of five books but when it gets too much she returns to the Lakes to collect more stories.
