Days Out

Leaflets are available from the Service Block

Within 30 minute's drive

• Access to the Lake District (Coniston, Windermere, etc)

• Grizedale Forest and adventure activity centre 'Go Ape'

• Haverthwaite and Lakeside Railway and Steamers and Lakes Aquarium

• Dalton Zoo

• Market town of Ulverston (with Stan Laurel Museum and various excellent restaurants covering all tastes from Fish and Chips (Chippy Bank) to Chinese, Thai, Indian etc)

• Sports and leisure facilities

• Horse riding or pony trekking

• Historical houses (eg home of Beatrix Potter)

Within an hour's drive

Most of the Lake District attractions can be reached within an hour's drive and include, including:

• Keswick

• Grasmere

• Derwentwater

• Windermere with its Steamboat Museum, marina, water skiing and sailing

• Dozens of Historical Houses and Castle which are open to the public

• Wordsworth's birthplace and his homes, Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount.