A QUESTION mark is hanging over an ambitious scheme to update and expand Windermere Steamboat Museum.
The multi-million pound plans to create a new visitor centre and display areas for the museum’s rare and historic vessels are to be scaled back because of the recession.
The organisation behind the venture, The Lakeland Arts Trust, confirmed it would [...]
SEVEN of the smallest rodents in Britain have set up home at a Lake District tourist attraction.
Lakes Aquarium, near Newby Bridge, has welcomed the arrival of a family of harvest mice, which each weigh less than a two-pence coin. The miniature creatures are from a species that is the only mammal in the world with [...]
A SPECIES of owl rarely seen on public display has set up home at the World Owl Trust at Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass.
A pair of 18-month-old Mottled Owls – which are not yet rare in the wild but numbers are decreasing as a result of deforestation and human disturbance – has been donated to the trust.
David [...]
Beatrix Potter wrote many of her famous children’s stories in this 17th century house, and it has been kept exactly as she left it, complete with her furniture and China.
Many of her beloved ‘treasures’ are on display
Hill Top was model for ‘Samuel Whiskers’ illustrations and others
Shop specialising in Beatrix Potter gifts
Hill Top was recreated for the [...]
Elizabethan mansion contains a fine collection of Jacobean furniture, Cordova leather wall coverings and early English patchwork. The world famous Topiary gardens were laid out by Monsieur Beaumont from 1694. Tearoom and Plant Centre. Open Apr-Oct.
Telephone: 015395 60321
Email: houseopening@levenshall.co.uk
Website: www.levenshall.co.uk
William Wordsworth’s home from 1813 until his death in 1850, containing family portraits and personal possessions. Extensive gardens landscaped by the poet, with terraces, rare shrubs and magnificent views. Open all year – Ambleside.
Telephone: 015394 33002
Email: info@rydalmount.co.uk
Website: www.rydalmount.co.uk
Beautifully preserved home of William Wordsworth, with a guided tour. The adjacent award-winning Wordsworth Museum displays priceless national treasures. Tea rooms & bookshop. Open all year except January – Grasmere.
Telephone: 015394 35544
Email: enquiries@wordsworth.org.uk
Website: www.wordsworth.org.uk
A FARMING family which diversified after a disease outbreak are celebrating the fifth anniversary of a successful tourist attraction on their land.
Jane and Graham Wadsworth have re-opened their popular ‘maize maze’ – in the shape of a chicken – at Lakeland Maze Park, Raines Hall Farm, Sedgwick, near Kendal, and crowds of people have been [...]
The imposing Hall, extensive gardens, Deer Park and an famous collection of motoring memorabilia, including [...]
