Places to explore in CumbriaEngland · North West England

A glacial chasm bitten clean out of the Pennine scarp, rimmed with columns of Whin Sill dolerite — the Pennine Way walks straight along its northern lip.

A dramatic road pass of slate crags and hairpins linking Borrowdale with Buttermere, one of the steepest in the Lakes.

A narrow high pass linking the Duddon and Little Langdale valleys, meeting Hardknott at the Three Shire Stone.

Neolithic circle in a ring of fells.

The Lake District's most visited waterfall, plunging 65 feet beneath a Victorian stone bridge in the landscaped glen above Ullswater.

England's steepest road, hairpinning out of Eskdale at 1 in 3 past a Roman fort with huge fell views.

Famous knife-edge arete to a lofty summit.

950 m

The highest point in England, at the head of Wasdale.

978 m

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

2,362 km²

Limestone country of dry-stone walls, field barns, waterfalls and the Three Peaks.

2,185 km²

The highest road pass in the Lakes open to traffic, climbing from Ullswater past England's third-highest inn.

Set between Great and Little Langdale, its reeds and pines frame a celebrated view of the Langdale Pikes.