WalkLakes Blog

We posted recently about some walks around lakes but the lakes are only part of the story when it comes to bodies of water in the Lake District and there are far more tarns tucked away among the fells.

Among our selection of walks for you to try we've got a lot of walks to or around tarns. Here's a few for you to consider.  read more ...

Among our selection of walks for you to try we've got walks around quite a few of the lakes of the Lake District. Some of the lakes are a bit big to do a circuit as a day walk. The Ullswater Way for example is twenty miles. But there are some shorter walks. Here's a few.  read more ...

In my last post I talked about Cathedral Cavern in Little Langdale south west of Elterwater and mentioned that another big cavern worth visiting in the Lake District was Rydal Cave.

Rydal Cave can be found on the north side of Loughrigg Fell above Rydal Water and, like Cathedral Cavern, is man made; a consequence of quarrying, again for slate. Long disused, the cave can be entered by the public.  read more ...

A cavern deep in the woods, hewn out of the rock during the search for slate. A sloping pillar, rather like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, holds the roof of the cavern up. A pool of water that's cold as ice even on a warm summer's day, lies to one side. A window high on the side provides a little soft light, and gives a view down onto a largely historic industry. This is Cathedral Cavern.  read more ...

Most of our walks are circular, not least as that's what most people want to do, but occasionally we put up a linear walk from one place to another. Here's two. They're both long days, being five fell rated, but we think they're both cracking days out. You can park at the end point and use the local bus service to get you to the start so logistics are straightforward even with a single car.  read more ...

We've had a couple of people recently ask us what the postcode is for the start of one of our walks and this got me thinking about tulips. Of course the reason people are asking is because they want to put the postcode into their satnav. Now normally this would be an entirely sensible thing to do because in an urban environment a postcode, which typically covers 25 houses in one street, would encompass a very pretty area and would certainly get you where you wanted to go. Sadly in rural areas this isn't always the case.  read more ...