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We spent 3 days in the lakes celebrating the New Year with friends. We stayed at our favourite B&B, the Ellergill in Stanger Street in Keswick, over the days we walked around Derwentwater lake and on one of them we ended up walking round the back of Skiddaw to Skiddaw house. One of the my photos is a view looking to Helvellyn with [...]

21st September 2007 we traveled for 7 hours to our base at Glen Nevis camping and caravanning site at the foot of Ben Nevis. At 4406ft or 1344m, Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the UK. Close to Fort William, and the accessibility of the path from Glen Nevis means that tens of thousands of [...]

The last day of our holiday - gutted. We were depressed with the thought of going home, so it was just a short walk around Buttermere lake, the classic combination of lakes and mountains has made this popular with visitors since the beginning of tourism in the English Lake District. A visit to Buttermere is [...]

On day 5 we walked from Keswick and onto Walla Crag, a fell near Keswick with a height of 1243 feet. The fell is a very popular short walk from Keswick Town and gives excellent views over Derwentwater Lake. We walked over the top to Ashness Bridge and Surprise view and down to the Ladore [...]

Rest day - Not , our good ladies had arranged a day out visiting Dove Cottage the home for a number of years for William Wordsworth. It was’nt as boring as first seemed, and turned out to be a fascinating insight into Wordsworth, his family and friends. Their is also a Wordsworth Museum in Grassmere [...]

The Big One the ! 3206 feet above sea level (Englands highest mountain) lads back at TGS would be proud of us . We started our walk from Seathwaite farm, then crossing Stockley Bridge turning left and following the path to Esk Hause, then onto Scarfell Pike. Visibility was good and the view from the [...]

On day two of our holiday we put on our walking boots and had a leisurely stroll to the church of St. John in the Vale then after looking around this lovely old church which can trace its orgins back to the 1500’s we then made our way along to Highrigg and then onto the [...]

The last week in August we spent a weeks walking holiday staying in a caravan at Dalebottom Farm, just outside of Keswick. Unlike the rest of this summer the weather was fine most days giving us a chance to do a lot of walking with some fantastic views of the Lake District. Our first day [...]

just back from one nights camping in the lake district. We camped on a small farm next to the Kings Head Inn at Thirlspot near Keswick. We took the old pony route as described in Wainwrights Pictorial Guide book 1. Straight up from the back of the farm to the top of white side which [...]