Levens Hall is an Elizabethan mansion built around a 13thC Pele tower. The much loved home of the Bagot family, visitors often comment on the warm and friendly atmosphere. Fine panelling and plasterwork, period furniture, Cordova leather wall coverings, paintings by Rubens, Lely and Cuyp and the earliest English patchwork. Topiary garden dating from 1694.

Open Sunday - Thursday (Closed Fridays & Saturdays) Early April to Mid October.
Gardens, Tea Room, Gift SHop & Plant Centre are Open from 10am -5pm
House opens at 12noon - 4.30pm (Last entry to the House at 4pm)
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Mirehouse Historic House and Gardens
By Bassenthwaite Lak
In the English Lake District

A family run country manor house and gardens with plenty to keep children entertained. Four woodland playgrounds, a heather maze and rhododendron tunnel to release any excess energy, a walled Bee Garden to picnic in the grounds are perfect for all ages.

In the house, while live music flows from room to room, children are kept entertained with a history quiz and owl hunt or playing in the Victorian nursery

Welcome to Muncaster Castle & Gardens, one of the best places to visit in the Lake District for a fun family day out! The Muncaster Experience is different for everyone...

Welcome to Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre!

From here you can find out more about Nenthead Mines, a museum dedicated to both showing and telling the 'story' of the mineral mining past of the North Pennines. Prepare to launch on a voyage of discovery at Nenthead Mines, learning more about the people, places, tools, lifestyle, and legacy of the mining industry that at one time completely dominated the landscape of the North Pennines!

The Railway runs for seven miles (11.3 kilometres) from the Lake District National Park's only coastal village of Ravenglass in the Western Lake District, through hidden Miterdale, to the grandeur of the Eskdale valley. The terminus at Dalegarth for Boot - home to our new visitor centre - nestles at the foot of England's highest mountains.

Dramatically sited on the cliffs overlooking the Solway Firth, this award winning Museum is next to a Roman fort probably founded on the orders of the emperor Trajan, and then rebuilt during the reign of Hadrian, nearly two thousand years ago.

Beautiful medieval house, extended in Elizabethan times, surrounded by rich gardens and estate in Cumbria's special limestone country
Exceptional series of oak-panelled rooms culminating in the Inlaid Chamber
Portraits, fine furniture accumulated over centuries on display
Garden includes ponds, lake and a superb rock garden
Many walks from the castle to dramatic viewpoints over Morecambe Bay to the Lake District fells

South Lakes Wild Animal Park Cumbrias unique open zoo. Probably the UKs best wildlife conservation Zoo Park and home to a wide vareity of wild animals.

The South Tynedale Railway operates steam and diesel hauled passenger trains, along a 2¼ mile line from Alston, in Cumbria to Kirkhaugh, in Northumberland, along part of the very scenic South Tyne valley.

The railway is operated and maintained by volunteer members of the South Tynedale Railway Preservation Society. Alston Station is 875 feet or 267 metres above sea level, therefore this railway line is marketed as “Northern England’s Highest Narrow Gauge Railway”.

This extensive working mill was begun in 1835 to produce the wooden bobbins vital to the Lancashire spinning and weaving industries. Although small compared to other mills, some 250 men and boys (some drafted in from workhouses) worked here over the years in often arduous conditions to produce a quarter of a million bobbins a week. Guided tours are included in the admission charge: the last tour begins 1⁄2 hour before closing.