Lake District Of England

able to take a Beatrix Potter Lakeland Tour, visiting the favourite places associated with the popular children s author. You can visit the places she spent her school holidays and the gorgeous Hill Top Farm where she lived and drew inspiration from, when she wrote many of her stories about Peter Rabbit and his friends.

Head to the small but picturesque village of Grassmere, with its limestone cottages and rolling green hills, and you ll also find yourself in the countryside where famous poet William Wordsworth lived. Visit his home of nearly 10 years at Dove Cottage. The Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery is next door and houses the greatest collection of his journals, letters and poems.

Some of the Lake Districts most iconic hikes can be found in Great Langdale though most of the trails are strictly for the fit. For the fit and the brave, climb Helvellyn. Its steep, twin ridges were carved out by glacier action during the ice-age, but it affords spectacular views of the beautiful countryside - if it s not shrouded in mist. For miles of open countryside and little else, hike through Newlands Valley or visit Beatrix Potter s favourite lake at the tranquil Derwentwater.