Villages & towns in CumbriaCumbria, England

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

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

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

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

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England's highest market town, a steep cobbled street of stone houses in the North Pennines and terminus of a narrow-gauge line.

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Former county town on a loop of the Eden, a broad main street between castle and church, host to the June horse fair.

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Lakeside resort where the Windermere steamers dock, its bustling front backed by galleries, tearooms and the World of Beatrix Potter.

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Handsome village around its priory church and a small racecourse, famous for sticky toffee pudding and the village square's food shops.

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

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A whitewashed village of cobbled streets deep in Dentdale, birthplace of the geologist Adam Sedgwick.

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Whitewashed cottages, cobbled squares and stone archways in a car-free centre, with Wordsworth's old grammar school and a Beatrix Potter gallery.

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

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The only coastal village in the National Park, an estuary port with Roman bath-house remains and the narrow-gauge railway.

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

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

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

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Georgian market town on the Duddon fringe, its handsome square keeping fish slabs, stocks and a chestnut-shaded market cross.

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

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Grey slate village under the Old Man, once a copper-mining hub, now the base for Ruskin's Brantwood and the Steam Yacht Gondola.

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

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

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Farming hamlet between Hawkshead and the Windermere ferry, home to Beatrix Potter's Hill Top and the Tower Bank Arms she drew.

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

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Sandstone coastal village with a long beach, a red-cliffed head of nesting seabirds and the start of the Coast to Coast.

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Grey limestone 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent, gateway to the Lakes, home of Kendal Mint Cake, a ruined castle and Abbot Hall.

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England's official book town at the foot of the rounded Howgill Fells, its main street lined with bookshops.

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Small artisan village between Kendal and Windermere, its Mill Yard packed with Hawkshead Brewery's beer hall, More? bakery and Wilf's cafe.

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Cobbled Furness market town, birthplace of Stan Laurel, with a lighthouse-like monument on Hoad Hill above Morecambe Bay.

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Riverside village on the Eden and the Settle–Carlisle line, with a small pele-tower castle and wooded sandstone banks.

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Estate village of two greens near Lowther Castle, with inns, a hall and paths down to the River Lowther.

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Lyth Valley village among the damson orchards, gathered around St Mary's church and the celebrated Punch Bowl Inn.

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Neat village of sandstone cottages round a tree-lined green under the Pennine edge, on the Pennine Way below High Cup.

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Lakeside village at Ullswater's head, the usual start for Helvellyn and the steamer pier for the length of the lake.

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Village near the west coast with a tenth-century Norse cross in its churchyard, a gateway to Wasdale.

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Village of Georgian houses round a green and market cross, home to a co-operatively owned pub and its own brewery.

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Sandstone Eden-valley village with a college of priests, a detached church bell-tower and cobbled streets near the river.

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Lakeland hamlet of farms round the Three Shires Inn, with the slate-built Slater's Bridge and quarry caverns close by

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Scattered farming community by the quiet, tree-fringed lake of the same name, with the Kirkstile Inn at its centre.

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Quiet Eden-valley village on a beck, its Saxon church tower among the oldest in the north of England.

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Village at Ullswater's foot on the River Eamont, its arched bridge rebuilt after Storm Desmond, a base for the lake steamers.

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Remote farming village at a valley's end, its 17th-century St Cuthbert's and pele-towered hall below the horseshoe of fells.

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Fellside village under Blencathra, its old lead and granite workings now a quarry museum, looking across the vale to Clough Head.

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Walkers' village at the foot of Whinlatter Pass and the Coledale round, with two inns and the Newlands fells beyond.

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Walking village up the valley from Glenridding, facing Brothers Water and the ring of high eastern fells.

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Stone hamlet in the heart of Borrowdale, a hub for walkers between Derwentwater and the high passes.

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Riverside hamlet at the mouth of Langdale, where the Brathay tumbles over Skelwith Force beside a green-slate works and riverside cafe.

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Unspoilt village at the head of its own quiet valley of white farmhouses, gorse and damson blossom between Bowness and the Lyth.

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Quiet limestone-country village between the Lyth Valley and Morecambe Bay, known for its damsons and the Derby Arms.

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