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The Lake District on the Around-England Blog

This page carries a large collection of blog posts relating to the English Lake District in simple date order. To see them in a more disaggregated format go to The Lake District, Cumbria – Selected Blog Posts where you’ll be able to drill down to the three major areas and to individual lakes.

Or go to The Lake District Directory for “Where to Go and What to Do”.

Bassenthwaite Lake from the Whinlatter road

August 17, 2011

A very short post today. Few words, just a view of Bassenthwaite Lake that has been photographed and painted times without number. From near water level it is difficult to get a good view of this the most northerly of the Lake District waters – the only one which actually has “Lake” in it’s name. [...]

St. John’s in the Vale – A Motorist’s View

August 16, 2011

Yesterday afternoon I was driving from Appleby to Workington on the A66. Just before Keswick I caught glimpses of sunlight on Threlkeld Knotts, Wanthwaite Bank and down into St. John’s in the Vale. There’s a convenient layby so I stopped, dug out my camera from the back of the car, and transmogrified from all-too-often driver [...]

Ullswater and The Lady of the Lake

July 15, 2011

The Ulswater steamer, ‘The Lady of the Lake” is thought to be the oldest working passenger vessel in the world. She has lived all her long life on Ullswater, and was first launched here in 1877. I say “first launched” because the Lady has had a challenging life, having twice been sunk, firstly in 1881 [...]

Kendal Reflections

July 11, 2011

A few days ago I came across this photograph of the River Kent in Kendal, forgotten in my camera from May of last year. I quite like it, and it may catch the imagination of others who love Kendal, the southern gateway to the English Lake District.

Visiting the Lake District? Don’t miss Brockhole.

June 24, 2011

It was not a glorious, sunny day when we last visited Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre. Rather it was the end of one of those weeks that give the Lake District lakes their water. Nevertheless we spent a most enjoyable two or three hours. Brockhole is not to be confused with “Brockholes”, the nature [...]

World Sheepdog Trials in Cumbria

June 14, 2011

In September Cumbria welcomes the World Sheepdog Trials to the parkland at Lowther Castle, near Penrith, Cumbria. More than 200 dogs and their handlers from over 20 nations will compete. Many thousands of spectators are expected at this prestigious event and its associated Food & Country Festival. A parade through Penrith is planned for Wednesday, [...]

Holehird Gardens, Windermere

January 27, 2011

Last summer, while staying for a few days in Kendal (dog-sitting for our son who was holidaying in warmer climes) my wife and I paid our first visit to Holehird Gardens, high up on the hillside above the village of Windermere in the English Lake District. This had been recommended by friends who had “discovered” them [...]

Wordsworth and the Lake District Rivers

January 18, 2011

I sat down to write about the River Duddon, but something more emerged. Recently I’ve been posting on Twitter a daily quotation from William Wordsworth, chiefly from his poetry. The difficulty, though, is Twitter’s limitation to 140 characters. It restricts one’s ability to do full justice to the bard. Having started to write this morning [...]

From Bluebird to Boxing Day Cricket

January 7, 2011

Today’s post is a brief miscellany of Lake District and Cumbria news, ranging from the trivial to the serious, just what catches my attention. Bluebird developments – The Westmorland Gazette reports that a driver, Ted Walsh of Cartmel, has been selected for the 2012 speed trials of Donald Campbell’s Bluebird, currently being reconstructed after recovery [...]

Ullswater 55 years ago

December 17, 2010

Yesterday I mentioned an excellent Winter Breaks deal at the Leeming House, overlooking Ullswater. (Later note added: This was a time-limited offer in late-2010, but click here for up-to-date details of this very nice hotel). Today, though, I thought I’d put up a black and white photo of Ullswater from Purse Point – fifty-five years [...]

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