Other sights in CumbriaCumbria, 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.

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

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

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

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

A National Trust gallery in Hawkshead's old solicitor's office showing Beatrix Potter's original book illustrations.

A stone shelter of 1846 on the limestone top above Grange, with a rooftop viewing platform sweeping from the Langdales to Morecambe Bay.

A restored North Pennine lead-mining landscape high above Nenthead, with underground trips and a heritage centre.

'La'al Ratty', a 15-inch narrow-gauge steam line running seven miles from the coast at Ravenglass up into Eskdale.

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

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

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

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.

A restored Victorian steam yacht cruising Coniston Water from the pier, calling at Brantwood and Monk Coniston.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A working forest between Coniston and Hawkshead threaded with walking and cycling trails and nearly a hundred outdoor sculptures.

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.

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

Five chambers cut into the red sandstone cliffs above the Eden near Little Salkeld, a Georgian gentleman's folly.

A riverside museum at Backbarrow with 30,000 exhibits of classic cars, bikes and the Campbell Bluebird story.

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

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

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

A weathered five-arched stone bridge of 1651 over the River Leven at Windermere's southern outflow.

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

A stone beacon tower on the wooded hill above Penrith, once lit to warn of border raids, with wide Eden-valley views.

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

The meeting of three rivers behind the dunes at Ravenglass, a quiet tidal haven for wading birds and the only Lakeland sea village.

Coniston's village museum of Ruskin, copper mining, lace and Donald Campbell, home to the restored Bluebird K7.

A short trail near Dent following the Dent Fault, laid out for the pioneering geologist Adam Sedgwick.

A broad Victorian green above the Solway shore at Silloth, laid out with cobbled streets and views to the Scottish hills.

The last working Lake District bobbin mill, an 1835 English Heritage site near Finsthwaite where bobbins are still turned on the old machinery.

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

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

A museum in Whitehaven's old Jefferson wine and rum vaults tracing the town's rum trade, ending in a tasting.

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

A Georgian planned harbour on the Cumbrian coast, its old quays and marina recalling the town's trading and mining heyday.

A lakeside museum of historic steamers and boats in a striking modern building on the Windermere shore.

A Bowness attraction bringing Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-Duck to life in walk-through recreations of the tales.

Narrow three-arched 15th-century bridge over Mill Beck, built by the monks of Furness Abbey to carry packhorses to their mill.