Plumpton

A 100-foot lighthouse-shaped tower to explorer Sir John Barrow on Hoad Hill above Ulverston, with big views over Morecambe Bay.

2 km W

England's highest mountains and deepest lakes — the fells that invented British hillwalking.

2.6 km NE

Ulverston's museum to the comedy duo, in the market town where Stan Laurel was born.

2.7 km W

Cavendish family estate near Cark with 25 acres of woodland and formal gardens, home to the ancient Great Holker Lime and a summer sunken garden.

4.7 km E

One of Britain's smallest and most scenic National Hunt courses, set in meadows beside the priory village.

6.3 km E

Simon Rogan's farm-to-table flagship in a Cartmel village on the edge of the Lake District.

6.5 km E