Places to explore near Keswick

Slate-built market town on Derwentwater, ringed by Skiddaw and Catbells, with a Saturday market, a lakeshore theatre and the old pencil works.

0.2 km W · Cumbria

A pine-topped promontory on Derwentwater ranked by Ruskin among Europe's finest views, gazing into the Jaws of Borrowdale.

1.3 km S

Keswick's lake, ringed by fells and dotted with islands, with the jaws of Borrowdale opening to the south.

2.2 km SW

Neolithic circle in a ring of fells.

2.3 km E

Cluster of cottages reached by a double-arched bridge over the Derwent, at the narrow Jaws of Borrowdale.

3.6 km SW · Cumbria

Beloved little fell above Derwentwater.

4.3 km SW

A country park in Cumbria.

4.3 km W

A roadside crag above the Watendlath lane that opens suddenly over the length of Derwentwater to the northern fells.

4.5 km S

Borrowdale waterfall spilling through boulders behind the Lodore hotel, made famous by Robert Southey's tumbling poem.

4.8 km S

Towering rounded mass behind Keswick.

5.7 km N

Perhaps the most photographed packhorse bridge in the Lakes, framing Derwentwater and Skiddaw from the Watendlath lane.

6.2 km S

Saddleback above Keswick, climbed by Sharp Edge.

6.9 km NE

An enormous house-sized boulder balanced in Borrowdale, climbed by a wooden staircase to its top.

7.2 km S

Remote tarn-side hamlet reached by a single lane and a packhorse bridge, National Trust-owned in a hanging valley above Borrowdale.

7.3 km S · Cumbria

Alone among the Cumbrian waters in being called a lake by name, a shallow sheet under Skiddaw where ospreys returned to breed.

7.7 km NW

A long ribbon of falls on the northern flank of Skiddaw, reached by an old track from the Bassenthwaite fells.

7.9 km N

Wainwright's own invention: St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay through three national parks.

8.5 km S · North Yorkshire & Cumbria

Dammed and raised to supply Manchester, its forested shores run beneath the long ridge of Helvellyn.

8.7 km SE

A grassy Newlands fell with a long spur running down to the valley, usually climbed with Dale Head and Robinson on a horseshoe round

8.7 km SW

A narrow fell road climbing from the Newlands valley to Buttermere, past the roadside Moss Force waterfall.

9.5 km SW

A string of pools and small falls on the beck above Stonethwaite, a much-loved wild-swimming spot known as the Fairy Glen.

10.3 km S

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

10.8 km SW

The last working slate mine in England, high on Honister Pass, with underground tours and a via ferrata across the crags.

10.8 km S

Famous knife-edge arete to a lofty summit.

11.1 km SE

A quiet Lakeland water ringed by high fells, its shoreline circuit among the loveliest short walks in Cumbria.

11.4 km SW

Small village between Buttermere and Crummock Water, hemmed by High Stile and Haystacks, with two inns and a lakeside round.

11.5 km SW · Cumbria

A white staircase of water tumbling off Base Brown above Seathwaite, England's wettest inhabited place.

11.9 km S

Fed by the falls of Scale Force, this Buttermere-valley lake is ringed by Mellbreak and the high western fells.

12.1 km SW

Wainwright's favourite fell above Buttermere.

12.7 km SW

A tall, plunging fall in upper Borrowdale on the walkers' route to Sty Head and the high central fells.

13.2 km S

Archetypal Lakeland valley of crags and oakwoods.

13.2 km S

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

13.4 km E

The highest single fall in the Lake District, dropping some 170 feet down a mossy cleft in the fells above Buttermere.

13.4 km SW

An open fellside deer park above Aira Force and Ullswater, where Wordsworth's 'host of golden daffodils' still flowers.

13.8 km E

Heritage passenger boats plying Ullswater between Glenridding, Howtown and Pooley Bridge, one of them over 150 years old.

13.8 km SE

Pyramidal peak, emblem of the Lake District.

14.3 km SW

Unusually, this small north-western fell lake drains inland toward the other lakes rather than the sea.

14.4 km W

Head of the classic Fairfield Horseshoe.

14.8 km SE

High beneath Great End near Sty Head, it is reputed to lie among the wettest spots in England.

14.9 km S

High western fell with historic Pillar Rock.

14.9 km SW

Little fell with a famous rock silhouette.

15.2 km SE

The second largest lake in the Lake District, a curving water in Patterdale where Wordsworth saw the daffodils of his most famous poem.

15.4 km E

Handsome market town where the Cocker meets the Derwent, one of Britain's designated 'gem' towns and Wordsworth's birthplace.

16.1 km NW · Cumbria

The Georgian townhouse in Cockermouth where William Wordsworth was born, saved from the bulldozers and kept as a 1770s family home

16.6 km NW

A ladder of cascades climbing the fellside from the Langdale road up to Stickle Tarn below Pavey Ark.

16.7 km S

Cluster of farms at the head of Wast Water beneath Great Gable and Scafell, the birthplace of British rock climbing.

16.8 km SW · Cumbria

One of England's smallest churches, a tiny stone chapel among yews at the head of Wast Water, remembering climbers lost on the fells.

16.8 km SW

Remote inn beneath Great Gable and Scafell, hung with climbing memorabilia as the birthplace of British mountaineering.

16.8 km SW

A hidden 60-foot fall dropping into a rocky chasm above the Old Dungeon Ghyll in Great Langdale.

17 km S

A relaxed National Trust house above Grasmere, once a Wordsworth home and later Canon Rawnsley's, with lake views and open fires.

17 km SE

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

17.1 km S

A limestone ravine and waterfalls on the beck at Caldbeck, past the ruin of a bobbin mill that once held a huge water wheel.

17.1 km N

Lake District country-house hotel dining rooted in foraged and kitchen-garden produce near Grasmere.

17.1 km SE

Shapely central fell crowning Langdale's head.

17.2 km S

Fellside village on the northern edge of the Lakes, with John Peel's grave, a millpond and the wooded Howk gorge.

17.3 km N · Cumbria

Wordsworth's beloved village beside its lake, home to Dove Cottage, St Oswald's churchyard and the gingerbread shop by the church gate.

17.4 km SE · Cumbria

A restored 1702 watermill beside St Kentigern's church in Caldbeck, now craft workshops and a riverside café.

17.4 km N

The boot-worn Hikers Bar at the head of Langdale, an old cow byre serving Cumbrian ale beneath the Langdale Pikes.

17.5 km S

The dramatic glaciated valley beneath the Langdale Pikes, the classic base for Lakeland walking and climbing.

17.8 km S

England's second-highest mountain, the rockier twin of Scafell Pike, cut off from it by the notorious rock step of Broad Stand

18 km S

Ullswater inn with lake views and rooms, an olive gastropub pick.

18 km E

The most secluded of the western Lakeland lakes, roadless along its shores below Pillar and the Ennerdale forests.

18 km SW

William and Dorothy Wordsworth's cramped Grasmere home from 1799 to 1808, where he wrote his greatest poetry, now a writer's-house museum.

18 km SE

Wordsworth's lake and village, where the poet lies in the churchyard and Dove Cottage stands close by the shore.

18.4 km SE

Rippled ridge with the notorious Bad Step.

18.7 km S

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

19.2 km S

A grassy shelf path above Grasmere with the classic postcard view down the lake to the village and the Vale of Grasmere.

19.2 km SE

Between Grasmere and Ambleside, this small lake sits close to Rydal Mount, where Wordsworth spent his later years.

19.4 km SE

A pretty fall in the grounds of Rydal Hall, framed by a 17th-century viewing house said to be England's oldest.

19.6 km SE

William Wordsworth's home for his last 37 years, with the garden he laid out.

19.6 km SE

Langdale village around a green and the Britannia Inn, where a riverside path runs down to Elter Water and Skelwith Force.

19.6 km S · Cumbria

Tiny hamlet between Grasmere and Ambleside, gathered around Rydal Mount, Dora's Field and the wooded path to Rydal Cave.

19.6 km SE · Cumbria

A quarry mouth above Rydal Water big enough to swallow a house, its floor pool crossed on stepping stones — the void left by Loughrigg's slate men.

19.7 km SE

A hillside beside Rydal church that Wordsworth planted with daffodils in memory of his daughter Dora, gold every spring.

19.7 km SE

Low fell with sublime Grasmere and Rydal views.

19.9 km SE

Reedy tarn and slate village below Langdale.

20 km S

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

20.1 km SE

Remote 16th-century inn near the top of the Kirkstone Pass, one of the highest pubs in England, above Ambleside.

20.3 km SE

England's deepest lake, backed by the Screes and the country's highest ground, once voted the nation's favourite view.

20.4 km SW

The smallest of the Langdale lakes, its reedy bays giving views to the Langdale Pikes above Elterwater village.

20.5 km S

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

21 km S

The main chamber of the Little Langdale slate workings, forty feet high and lit by a window of daylight — reached through a tunnel that wants a torch.

21.1 km S

The wild Lakeland valley of Wast Water, England's deepest lake, ringed by its highest and most famous mountains

21.2 km SW

Broad far-eastern fell on a Roman road.

21.2 km SE

A wooded 40-foot fall in several stages on the Brathay in Little Langdale, one of the more easily reached falls.

21.3 km S

A short, powerful fall where the combined Brathay and Langdale Beck force through the rocks at Skelwith Bridge.

21.3 km S

The quieter of the two Langdale valleys, a green trough of old farms and slate byways leading to Blea Tarn and the passes.

21.4 km S

A tiny 17th-century two-room cottage built out over Stock Beck in the middle of Ambleside, now a National Trust icon.

21.7 km SE

Slate-built town at the head of Windermere, its narrow streets full of outdoor shops, cafes and the tiny Bridge House straddling Stock Beck.

22 km SE · Cumbria

A 70-foot two-stage fall in wooded ravine a short walk behind Ambleside, reached by an easy railed path.

22.1 km SE

A flooded slate quarry whose arched caverns and 150-foot walls read as a skull in reflection — famous on camera, and strictly for looking into.

22.3 km S

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

22.4 km S

A Coniston fell honeycombed with old copper and slate workings, its slopes scarred by centuries of mining

22.4 km S

Spectacular fort ruins commanding the Eskdale pass.

22.6 km S

A steep, shapely Kentmere fell with a cluster of tall stone cairns on top, met by most walkers on the Kentmere Horseshoe

23 km SE

England's last golden eagle held on at this remote eastern Lakeland reservoir, which drowned the village of Mardale for Manchester.

23.1 km SE

A grass-roofed arts and events centre near Penrith built into a hillside, with galleries, a cinema and local food.

23.3 km E

A string of cascades tumbling down Glen Mary from Tarn Hows towards Yew Tree Tarn, an easy family walk.

24.2 km S

Estate-to-plate dining at a fortified manor and kitchen garden near the Lake District.

24.4 km E

A wild upland valley above Coniston strewn with the ruins and spoil of centuries of copper mining beneath the Old Man.

24.6 km S

Eskdale hamlet on the terminus branch of the Ravenglass railway, with a working corn mill and the path to Stanley Ghyll.

24.8 km S · Cumbria

Strung along a hillside lane above its valley, a village of listed 17th-century farmhouses, old wells and the National Trust's Townend.

24.9 km SE · Cumbria

Through the Lake District's heart at valley level — Coniston, Langdale, Borrowdale and Caldbeck between the old market towns of Ulverston and Carlisle.

0 km NW · Cumbria

Small, well-liked pub at the end of Keswick's pedestrianised centre, a repeat winner of walkers' pub-of-the-year awards.

0.2 km SW

A lake swimming spot, currently rated poor for water quality.

0.9 km SW

Keswick's ancient parish church with a Norman font and the grave of poet Robert Southey, below Skiddaw.

1.4 km NW

A Wainwright — one of the fells of the Lake District.

1.6 km NE

A Wainwright — one of the fells of the Lake District.

2.3 km S