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Lake District Explorer

Spectacular fells, rolling hills, deep blue lakes and timeless villages continue to attract visitors from all over the world.

Places you'll make memories

  • Haverthwaite Steam Railway
  • Holker Hall & Gardens and Levens Hall & Gardens
  • Keswick
  • Lake Windermere Cruise
  • Ullswater

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Local departure by coach or Home Connect service, then to the Shap Wells or Damson Dene Hotel, Cumbria for four nights.

Enjoy our first included tour of the Lake District. We head to Patterdale on Lake Ullswater and then cross the spectacular Kirkstone Pass to reach Ambleside at the head of Lake Windermere, where a short walk takes you to the lakeside at Waterhead.

Continue to Grasmere on the lake of the same name and long a favourite of Wordsworth. We finish the day with a visit to the market town of Keswick.

Ullswater
Ullswater

Included Memory Makers

  • Ullswater
  • Keswick

Today we visit Holker Hall and Gardens. These immaculately kept gardens are essentially Victorian in character and are set in exceptionally beautiful countryside with gardens merging into parkland, with hills on one side and the expanse of Morecambe Bay on the other.

Later, we head to Levens Hall and Gardens. Levens Hall is a magnificent Elizabethan mansion built around a 13th century pele tower, which was expanded and rebuilt towards the end of the 16th century.

Holker Hall
Holker Hall

Included Memory Makers

  • Holker Hall & Gardens and Levens Hall & Gardens

We’ll start the day with a nostalgic steam ride through breathtaking scenery, aboard the heritage railway from Haverthwaite to Lakeside, travelling through the Lakeland Fells, the perfect scenic backdrop with its picturesque valleys, stunning lakes and rolling green hillside.

Next, sit back and enjoy our cruise on picturesque Lake Windermere, soaking up the awe-inspiring scenery of the Cumbrian countryside, as we sail to the popular resort of Bowness. Spend some free time in Bowness, with its shops, cafés, restaurants, pubs and attractions such as the Beatrix Potter Exhibition.

Our day continues with a visit to Wordsworth’s Hawkshead, with its charming whitewashed houses, alleyways and courtyards and squares. We end the day with a visit to Coniston Water.

Haverthwaite Steam Railway
Haverthwaite Steam Railway

Included Memory Makers

  • Lake Windermere Cruise
  • Haverthwaite Steam Railway

Return home

You will stay for four nights at the 3-star Shap Wells Hotel, situated in a secluded wooded valley, high in the Shap Fells.

13 June and 5 July 2021 departures 

You will stay for four nights at the 3-star Damson Dene Hotel in Crosthwaite. 


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