The latest blog in our Wander More This Winter series comes from Lewis Jevons, who in May completed a 5-year challenge of bagging all 214 Wainwrights using only public transport. Read on to discover more about Lewis’s big adventure, and a handy walk guide to try yourself.
A new art gallery is opening its doors this weekend at Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre, and will become a permanent visitor attraction for Windermere.
Explore Coniston Water and attractions in and around Coniston Village in the Lake District. Getting there, local information, walks and accommodation. And popular activities like hire boats and bikes from Coniston Boating Centre. More info here.
A level walk along Ennerdale Water's western shore with fantastic views of the wild Ennerdale fells.
With links to the Lake District National Park Hydropower Scoping Study. Our fells and high rainfall mean that we have a large number of watercourses in the National Park, and some of these may be suitable for hydropower schemes.
The Lake District National Park Authority is set to improve and enhance the landscape of a remote and popular multi-user route in the east of the National Park, thanks to a package of funding from the National Grid’s Landscape Enhancement Initiative (LEI).
A list of the islands on Windermere and their history.
Date: 13th Dec 2023
Find out about the many issues, environmental, social and more, that are impacting on the Lake District National Park and how we are dealing with them.
Windermere Draft Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan Consultation
Closures of footpaths, bridleways and roads in the Lake District National Park
Details of the LDNPP meetings meeting including agenda, papers and minutes.
Some astounding facts and figures about some incredible events that have happened in the Lake District.
Photographs from the 1890s and later of Brockhole House.
What local occupany and Section 106 means, how we are helping to improve the situation and useful links, including to housing associations.
