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A Walk In PatterdaleInformation Start:Patterdale Village
Distance: 8 miles
Time to allow: 41/2 hours
Map: OS Explorer OL5 The English Lakes, North-eastern Area
Refreshments and toilets: In Patterdale village.
Book: A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Book Two, The Far Eastern Fells by A Wainwright READ MORE »  OTHER ARTICLES
The Gardens of MirehouseMirehouse has given peaceful enjoyment for the Spedding family and visitors for the many years. Tucked away, as their literature has it, between mountain and lake, the manor house has been a favourite retreat for Wordsworth, Tennyson, Southey, Thomas Carlyle and John Constable. READ MORE » 
Surviving in the wildTHERE are inhospitable wildernesses all over the Lake District; windswept hillsides, remote valleys and desolate moors which all add to the beauty of the region, but which are not places you'd want to be stranded. Adam Logan wouldn't mind, though. The 26-year-old is a bushcraft instructor who trains people to survive in the harsh outdoors. READ MORE » 
Animal MagicDavid Gill is the latter-day Noah whose dream it was to create a wild animal park near Dalton Words by David Pearce Pictures by Bill Wilkinson READ MORE » 
| A Denby GardenWHEN businessman Jonathan Denby and his family bought their home overlooking Morecambe Bay you couldn't see the breathtaking sea views for the thick undergrowth and rampant sycamores. He set about creating what he describes as a garden designed for pleasure and fun on the four and a half acre plot and he achieved it in less than five eventful years. Now, he is preparing to share it with you as one of the many fine gardens across the north west opening for the National Gardens Scheme project. READ MORE » 
Walking in AmblesideInformation
Distance: Six miles
Time: Allow four hours
Start and finish: Low Fold Car Park, Lake Road, Ambleside
Toilets: At Car Park, also in Ambleside
Refreshments: Wide choice in Ambleside; the Mortal Man in Troutbeck; teas
at Troutbeck Post Office on weekdays
Map: OS Explorer OL7 The English Lakes SE Area
Tourist Information:Ambleside
Disabled suitability: Not suitable READ MORE » 
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Painting Holker Hall
Gordon Wilkinson captures the beauty of Holker Hall and its surrounding village
PEOPLE will often give you a sympathetic smile if you tell them you live over the shop. After all, there must be more to life than work. But when that shop is the Holker Hall estate, suddenly it becomes a much more attractive proposition.
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The Lakes In Summer
Alan Novelli takes a photographic tour of Lakeland as summer gets underway...
WE all know that just because the calendar says we should be digging out our summer clothes doesn’t mean the weather will behave appropriately. It still won’t be safe to go far from home without an umbrella, we will still experience all four seasons every week, sometimes every day and occasionally every hour.
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Lee Beel Photographs the Lake District
Lee Beel spent a weekend in a caravan in Windermere with his in-laws... We booked the caravan, near Toutbeck Bridge, for the following week too so we could have more time to explore. It's usually true that places of interest are bustling with visitors at the weekends and quieter during the week, so I planned to return later when there would be fewer people around. I prefer my landscape images to be free of people.
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