What to do in Cumbria

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Rydal Mount which includes wildflowers and a park
Ambleside featuring signage, a small town or village and street scenes
Grasmere featuring a castle, tranquil scenes and a lake or waterhole
Ambleside featuring heritage architecture, a river or creek and a small town or village
Ambleside which includes shopping, a small town or village and street scenes
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Lake District Day Trip with Cream Tea & Windermere Cruise

Lake District Day Trip with Cream Tea & Windermere Cruise

Activity duration is 13 hours and 30 minutes
10.0 out of 10 with 3 reviews
Free cancellation available
Price is £299 per adult
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Private Tour of Roman Britain & Hadrian's Wall from Windermere

Private Tour of Roman Britain & Hadrian's Wall from Windermere

Activity duration is 9 hours
Price is £650 per traveller
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Windermere: 24-Hr Hop-on Hop-off Cruise. See all of the lake

Windermere: 24-Hr Hop-on Hop-off Cruise. See all of the lake

9.8 out of 10 with 6 reviews
Free cancellation available
Price is £26 per adult
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Lake District Adventure Sightseeing Day Trip from Liverpool

Lake District Adventure Sightseeing Day Trip from Liverpool

Activity duration is 9 hours and 30 minutes
9.6 out of 10 with 63 reviews
Free cancellation available
Price is £59 per adult
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MANCHESTER: Lake District Adventure Sightseeing Day Trip

MANCHESTER: Lake District Adventure Sightseeing Day Trip

Activity duration is 9 hours and 30 minutes
8.0 out of 10 with 4 reviews
Free cancellation available
Price is £59 per adult
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Day trip destinations from Cumbria

Ambleside showing night scenes, a small town or village and street scenes

Ambleside

Ornate Railway Station at Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria

Grange-over-Sands

Grasmere which includes a small town or village, street scenes and a house

Grasmere

Keswick showing street scenes and markets as well as a large group of people

Keswick

Near site of Cleator Moor West station, 1986, Believed to be a northward view along the course of the former Cleator & Workington Junction line, which was built, along with various other lines, for transporting haematite iron ore from the rich mines in the area to the iron- and steel-works in the Workington and Harrington Disticts. For 100 years from the 1860s this area, nowadays almost reclaimed by Nature, had been heavily industrialised and honeycombed by railways: the remnants of spoil-heaps from the iron and coal mines can be seen on the horizon. [I was not entirely sure exactly where I was when I took this photograph, nor am I very familiar with the complexity of the former railways of West Cumberland, so would welcome further discussion about it!]
Photo by Ben Brooksbank (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0)

Cleator Moor

There has been a church on the site in Hexham, England, for over 1300 years since Etheldreda, Queen of Northumbria made a grant of lands to Wilfrid, Bishop of York. Of Wilfrid's Benedictine abbey, which was constructed almost entirely of material salvaged from nearby Roman ruins. The Abbey was built up during the 12th Century into its current form, with additions around the turn of the 20th Century. #LikeALocal #OnTheRoad

Hexham

Preston patrick church

Crooklands

Windermere showing café scenes, heritage architecture and street scenes

Windermere

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