Lake District · Things to do

Wordsworth's house, kept deliberately unrestored so you can sit in it. £9 adult, 10.00-16.00, ten minutes uphill from the village and no visitor car park.

Thirty-eight stones on a plateau outside Keswick with the Helvellyn range behind them. Free, open at any hour, and best at sunrise.

An artificial tarn that looks entirely natural, with a level surfaced mile and a half around it, so it works in most weather and with most legs.

A fifteen-inch gauge steam line running seven miles inland from the coast at Ravenglass into Eskdale, under the highest fells.

Four and a half flat miles right round a small lake between big fells, including a tunnel cut through rock. The best short walk in the park.