Attractions

Here's a selection of great days out from around the country and some award winning attractions. From here you can buy your tickets online for various activities or entry and save up to 40%!

Abbot Hall Art Gallery

The Gallery is housed in one of Kendal's most important buildings, a Grade I listed villa, on the banks of the River Kent. The galleries offer two floors of light-filled spaces in which to see art.

Abbot Hall has a comprehensive collection of George Romney's work. His paintings are hung in the elegant historical settings for which they were painted, amongst fine 18th-century furniture and porcelain.

Abbot Hall has also secured some spectacular long-term loans, including works by Constable, L. S. Lowry and Lucian Freud.

As well as a fine permanent collection, Abbot Hall is acknowledged as having one of the most imaginative and independently minded temporary exhibition programmes outside London.

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Biketreks

Here at Biketreks we have something for everyone into cycling. Whether you are just getting into bikes or you are a seasoned professional we have a route, a bike or the know how to keep you and your bike going!

Hire Bikes: We carry a large fleet of mountain bikes for hire to suit all ages and abilities. Bikes can be hired on a daily basis or longer term and are available with helmets, saddle packs, and maps and are ideally placed in Ambleside for you to take off and explore the wonders of the Lake District.

Organised Rides: We run shop organised rides every week throughout the year to give you a guided tour of our best trails. We have 2 sessions available on a Sunday and Tuesday weekly.

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Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House

Blackwell is one of Britain’s finest houses from the turn of the last century. Designed by M H Baillie Scott, as a holiday retreat for Sir Edward Holt, a wealthy Manchester brewery owner Blackwell survives in a truly remarkable state of preservation retaining many original decorative features. The period rooms are carefully furnished with the blend of Arts and Crafts furniture and early country-made pieces advocated by Baillie Scott, containing furniture and objects by many of the leading Arts & Crafts designers and studios – furniture by Morris & Co and Voysey, metalwork by W A S Benson and ceramics by Ruskin Pottery and William de Morgan.

Visitors are encouraged to sit and soak up the atmosphere in Blackwell’s fireplace inglenooks and are free to enjoy the house as it was originally intended, without roped-off areas. The inviting window and garden seats offer stunning views of the surrounding Lakeland scenery.

Coniston Boating Centre

We're just half a mile from Coniston village on the shores of Coniston Water, the lake that inspired Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons". There's parking, or arrive by launch. Why not enjoy the Lake District in your own boat for an hour on Coniston Water. Relax and enjoy the amazing scenery and place where Donald Campbell in Bluebird, attempted the World Speed Record on water.

• Hire a boat an electric self-drive boat
• Hire a rowing boat
• Hire a sailing dinghy or learn to sail
• Picnic on the lake shore
• Go canoeing or kayaking

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Dalemain Mansion and Historic Gardens

Dalemain Near Ullswater, on the Northern fringes of the Lake District, Dalemain is a real treasure. The fantastic Lake District historic house and gardens contains behind its Georgian facade, a wealth of Tudor and Medieval rooms and buildings. There has been a settlement at Dalemain since Saxon times, when a fortified pele tower is mentioned and the present day courtyard is testimony to the defensive nature of the hamlet surrounding that tower.

The Old Hall was added in the 14th century. In the 16th century, two projecting wings were added creating a typical Elizabethan manor house and in 1744, the impressive Georgian front was constructed to enclose an inner courtyard. Very little change has been made to the buildings since these times, and Dalemain remains a very special Lake District Historic House and gardens.

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Holker Hall & Gardens

Holker Hall is the home of Lord & Lady Cavendish, magnificently situated in exceptionally beautiful countryside with award winning gardens that merge into parkland framed by the Lakeland Fells.

Step back in time as you tour the Hall and admire its outstanding craftsmanship. Enter a different world as you explore the serpentine labyrinth, stunning cascade and giant sundial in the gardens and park.

Stay a while and browse in the Gift shop and Food Hall. Local and Estate produce served in Courtyard Cafe. Children's play and picnic area. Extend your visit by stopping off in historic Cartmel.

Holker Hall hosts it's famous Garden Festival every June in the parkland. This year it runs between 4th - 6th June - advance tickets available on line via our website.

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Hutton in the Forest

This ancient house which was at least two hundred and fifty years old when it was bought by my family in 1605. We love living here and are sure you will enjoy visiting. As well as a rich variety of architecture, furnishings and a beautiful garden, there are varied outdoor events during the summer, including the Plant and Food Fair, open air Shakespeare, Potfest in the Park and Horse Trials.

Lord Inglewood

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Jennings Brewery

Jennings Brewery was originally established as a true family concern back in 1828, in the village of Lorton. The company moved to its current location in 1874, in the historic market town of Cockermouth.

Pure Lakeland water is still used for brewing, drawn from the brewery’s own well and only the finest natural ingredients are added – malt made from Maris Otter barley, Golding hops from Kent and Fuggles hops from Herefordshire.

Find out how our real ales are still brewed with care and attention, by taking our friendly guided tour of the brewery. Your tour will be completed in the best possible way, sampling some of Jennings’ superb Lakeland ales in the atmospheric bar, The Old Cooperage.

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Lake District Coast Aquarium

We pride ourselves in being one of the best places to see some of the varied marine life of the Irish Sea. We don’t keep any mammals like seals or otters, but have a huge variety of fish and invertebrates (starfish, lobsters, etc) in over 50 carefully themed and informative displays.

Your admission ticket allows you to re-enter the display area all day so you can enjoy seeing the fish being fed and listen to talks by the friendly staff. There are regular fish feeding demonstrations every day, at 12.00, 2.00, 3.00 and 4.00 o’clock, with extra events during school holidays.

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Levens Hall & Gardens

Visitors to the Lake District should not miss Levens Hall and its unique Topiary Gardens conveniently situated only 5 minutes drive from the M6 (exit J36)

The world famous Gardens dating from 1694 contain Topiary , beech hedges and colourful seasonal bedding which combines to create a stunning visual impact. The Hall is a magnificent Elizabethan mansion built around a 13th century pele tower and contains a collection of Jacobean furniture , fine paintings and the earliest English patchwork.

Homemade light lunches and teas are available in the Bellingham Buttery , whilst the Potting Shed Shop sells a wide variety of gifts including Levens 'Morocco Ale' brewed to a secret recipe. The playground , willow structures and Living Willow Labyrinth provide activities for younger children.

Attractions

Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Biketreks

Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House

Coniston Boating Centre

Dalemain Mansion and Historic Gardens

Holker Hall & Gardens

Hutton in the Forest

Jennings Brewery

Lake District Coast Aquarium

Levens Hall & Gardens

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