THE BEST OF THE LAKE DISTRICT - Places to Visit in 3/4 Days
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- We recently got back from a 4 day trip to one of the most beautiful spots in the UK, The Lake District. We’ve compiled together a travel guide that lists some of the best places to visit in The Lake District and what to do in each destination. See breath-taking scenery and listen to our top tips for exploring Ambleside, Windermere, Grasmere, Ullswater and Keswick.
We hope you find our 4 days in The Lake District travel guide useful and can use it as inspiration to help plan your trip!
Places mentioned in the video:
0:00 - Intro
0:25 - Ambleside town
1:05 - Stock Ghyll Force Waterfall
1:49 - Windermere
2:06 - Bowness Town
2:30 - Windermere Lake
3:24 - Brockhole on Windermere
4:06 - Ferry ride to the west of the shore
4:29 - Wray Castle
4:45 - Grasmere Town
5:18 - Daffodil Garden/ Grasmere Gingerbread Shop
5:57 - Wordsworth Museum
6:34 - Grasmere Lake
7:03 - Ullswater Lake
7:20 - Pooley Bridge
8:12 - Aira Force Waterfall & Nature Trail
9:10 - Glenridding
9:59 - Castlerigg Stone Circle
10:28 - Keswick Town
10:43 - Hope Park
11:00 - Outro/ Subscribe
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Hi guys! We hope you enjoyed our video on the best things to see and do in The Lake District! Comment down below your favourite place you've visited! ☺️
Tarn Hows.
Is the waterfall easily accessible for pushchair ?
@@bushrahaseeb2929unfortunately not as its a woodland walk and is quite steep in some places. If you have a young child you can perhaps use a baby sling wrap otherwise we'd recommend visiting other areas with a easier route 😊
Kindly visit from pakistan
Great video! Beautiful content! Just curious, did you hire a car during your stay in the Lake District? Wanted to get your opinion how difficult to get around without one. Cheers!
I like The Lake District. This is a very nice place to go. And all people are so relaxed. Greetings from Germany
We stayed in Keswick at a lovely B&B for two days about three years with friends from Birmingham who were our guides. We fell in love with the Lakes District, the area is stunning and the villages are all very walkable and offered unique shops and places to eat. If you ever get to visit Great Britain make plans to stay in the Lake District!!
So glad you had a great time! We loved Keswick too 😊 it's definitely a must-place to visit for absolutely everybody!
I feel lucky to live just outside the national park. It’s absolutely beautiful.
You're incredibly blessed! :)
Why where abouts do u live in penrith or something
How is the weather next week? We want to go but scared its gonna rain!
Hi
What places do you recommend for a 3 day plan
@@cge0929 windermere ambleside and grasmere tbh, the public transport is on point and those places are the best
Visited the Lake District May 2024. Loved Grasmere.
What an amazing video beautiful scenes and scenery beautifully explained in a simple and lucid style enjoyed it a lot thanks
Indeed. However, one will never be able to comprehend the sheer beauty of the the lake District until one climb's to the summits of Great Gable and behold's the absolutely mind-blowing breathtaking view from Great Gable summits over Wast Water. Also, been on Sharp edge on Blencathra and seeing the views form the middle of sharp edge, and the legendary Haystacks the place were Alfred Wainwright's ashes was scattered on the Innominate_Tarn breathing-taking location indeed. And Helvellyn the views from the tope edge of stridding edge and the mid blowing views from the rear and front of Helvellyn.
Ahhh so glad you enjoyed the lovely Lakes! Love, a local xx
Thanks for sharing some ideas for my next trip!
We hope you enjoyed it! Have a wonderful time :)
I went to Bo'ness and Grasmere in September last year. A beautiful area. Thanks for the memories.
You're very welcome. We're glad our video brought back some memories for you! :)
It's Bowness. Bo'ness is near Carlisle......
Thank you, very helpful video as we’ve just booked to stay in Ambleside in August
You're very welcome. Do let us know if you need anymore information 😊 we hope you have a lovely trip!
Lake District is certainly heaven on earth.
Scenting fragrance of wordsworth and romanticism.
Wish to be there again and.
It truly is! :)
Wow , great drone footage
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A beautiful pleasant national park to visit
Thanks for sharing
Very helpful thank you. Spending a week here in April
I absolutely love Windermere and Buttermere. To be honest I love the Lake District as a whole. Great place to visit and trek I find a new spot everytime I come. Coniston Grasmere , Esthwaith. Just venture out and discover.
There's always a new place to discover every time you go - we'll definitely be back! :)
I live in the Lake District so it’s interesting seeing others perspective!!
Nice personal tour with plenty of tips. Thank you very much.
You're very welcome. We're glad you enjoyed it! Let us know if you have any questions or advice :) Take care
We had our honeymoon near Penrith, 42 years ago, 18th August 1979. Love the area.
What a lovely place to have a honeymoon :) Congratulations on your soon to be 43rd anniversary!
We're coming back to the lakes this August I'll never tire of coming up from North Wales (which is equally as beautiful, but I've seen it all) to discover more than I did on the last trip. Great informative video guys thanks for taking the time to do it
We can see why you're going back - it's such a gorgeous place! Which areas are you planning on visiting in August? We hope you have a wonderful time and thank you for taking the time to leave us a comment :)
@@ToucanTravellers Aira force definitely, Brandelhow park and suprise view, Ullswater , Muncaster castle (garden's only though because we're taking the dog) Grizedale forest and a mooch around Keswick and Ambleside as you mentioned.
Same here. We have been living in North Wales 🏴 for more than 16 years and have seen all the beautiful areas and last week we’ve been to Lake District for the first time ( me & hubby, children visited from their high school as a geography trip) and we loved it. We’re hoping to go there again for another day visit some time soon 💕💓
@james williams i love north wales
@@bushrahaseeb2929 I'm glad you do, it's hard not to love it.
I live in the Lake District 5 minutes from Keswick glad you liked it ! X
Me too, Lucy, I live way out west, Whitehaven way. I do love our county.
Looking forward to next month we are visiting this area .Thanks for the nice video and ideas.
You're so welcome Jan :) Glad you found it useful. Hope you have a wonderful time
I am visiting Lake District next week . This video is so helpful
You're very welcome, we're glad it helped :) Hope you have a great time!
Lovely and informative vlog.
Love to visit again Lake District❤️.
Many thanks for the support Radi! :)
My very first work experience experience was Brockole :)...so many moons ago!
Beautiful😍
Great video of Lake District. It's been years since I last visited.
Thank you for the love! Maybe it's a place to add on your list? 😍
I live here and just wanted to say what a nice video thankyou
Very informative, great vlog
Thank you for the kind comment Pauline. Glad you enjoyed :)
you shot this so good, looks beautiful
Thanks for posting this vid as it as helped us on where we would like to visit during our 5 day stay in June 22, the video was well delivered and easy to understand, so thanks again and best wishes
You're very welcome. It makes us really happy to hear that you found it useful 😊 out of interest, where abouts did you decide on? Hope you have a wonderful time. Susie
@@ToucanTravellers Grasmere looks very picturesque, the outlying scenery is beautiful so will certainly be no 1 on our visit list
HELLO THIS VIDEO IS GORGEOUS❤️❤️ THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US MY FRIEND 👍 Take Care !! 🙏😇
Thank you so much for your lovely video and all the informations.
Sending love 💓💕
You're very welcome and we hope you found it useful 😊
@@ToucanTravellers indeed it is useful. Thank you once again 💐
Awesome place
It really is! :)
Great tourist vlog
Thank you very much - glad you enjoyed :)
Great Video guys ! Beautiful visuals, which camera are you using? To be honest with you , fell in love with Lake District, can’t wait to go there .
Subscribed to watch more fantastic videos!
Thank you so much for the love! We use three cameras; fuji film xt3, go pro hero 8 and the mavic mini 2 drone for those amazing overhead shots 😍 when are you going to The Lake District? We assure you that you'll have a fantastic time! 😊
"Immensely popular" Windermere, Ambleside and Bowness.....a nice way of saying miles of traffic. I'm lucky enough to live in Kendal (still awful traffic) but the best bit of Cumbria is that one can avoid the tourists and still see breathtaking views. It is beautiful.
Excellent. Well done, guys. Great work. Even stopped my wife working to come over to my desk to view! We're frequent visitors, so many places and scenes familiar to us but great to see the drone shots and interesting to see the new bridge at Pooley Bridge.
Thank you for your comment, Terry - the part about your wife made us chuckle! Yes, it's always great to see places from a birds eye view. Take care and thanks again :)
@@ToucanTravellers Thanks for reply. What about a few more shots where we see you guys (together and singly) from the front rather than walking away from the camera? A bit more personalised? Just a thought. Was the drone very expensive?
@@fastrax1949 ha, yes there's quite a few of us from behind. I guess we just wanted to appear a bit more 'natural' and as this is a travel guide as opposed to a 'vlog' we didn't want to many shots from the front. We have included a few more front shots from our latest Algarve video if you want to check it our. Thanks for the feedback :)
@@fastrax1949 Also the drone cost around £500 :)
Greetings from moroco good Luck ♥️🙏🌷♥️
Great video, thanks for putting it together :-) I’m going there this coming weekend with my girlfriend for her birthday so any advice greatly received, we have a kayak and wetsuits and fancied getting out in the water but also climb scarfell if the weather is good x
The shore line at White Water is very popular with canoeists and paddle boarders... Not far from lake windermere.
Superb video, TT, from a proud Cumbrian.
Good shot of our Owl at the Grand at Grasmere 🤗
Hawkshead is really recommended too
We didn't have the chance to visit, but we'll definitely put it on our list for next time we visit! :)
There is a great exhibition about Donald Campbell and his quest for speed on land and water. This is located at the lakekand motor museum. They bake great cake and scones there 😋
amazing .loved it and the music i live in Grasmere and have been to all of the places except Ullswater but that's is on my list of places to go . great job
We're so glad you enjoyed the video! You're very lucky to live in such a beautiful place in the UK :) Definitely take a trip to Ullswater when you can. Take care :)
@@ToucanTravellers and you stay safe
Ulswater has the best hiking scenery.
Awesome
As someone who has visited the lakes since the 1970's (originally from Liverpool, another great place to visit ) and now living in the lakes, I would like to congratulate you both. Ricky and Suzie, hope spells are right, aka Toucan Travellers, a beautifully shot concise informative realistic video, that i am sure will help many many traveller's for years to come, Bon chance ! may all your adventures and your enterprise be all that you wish for. Ciao e grazie
Thank you very much for taking the time to write us such a lovely comment - it genuinely made our day! You're right that Liverpool is also a great place to visit, one that we both enjoyed visiting. We hope this video does inform and inspire many others who travel to The Lake District. Take care :)
The bridge into Pooley Bridge was only completed in October 2020 after the original stone bridge was washed away by severe flood waters during Storm Desmond in December 2015.
Yes, just the 5 years to replace a lovely stone bridge with a concrete and steel monstrosity. Still, that's quick for the UK today I suppose...
Great video! From a Cumbrian girl 😊
Thank you Katherine :)
Thank you for sharing. Never knew this place is sooo beautiful. I’ll go there when I get my car.
You're very welcome and glad you enjoyed it. Yes, definitely make a trip back (especially in the summer whilst the weather is good!) 😊
great video ! you deserve more followers :)
u guys will go very far! nice details and information will be going. Which camera are u using
Thank you for the support :) We use three cameras; fuji film xt3, go pro hero 8 and the mavic mini 2 drone for those overhead shots. We hope you enjoy your time in The Lake District! :)
Very nice video, well done.
Thank you Adrian :)
@@ToucanTravellers You are welcome. It is a very professional touch and clearly took a lot of effort.
A good start! Next go to the really beautiful Western Lakes, in particular, the amazing Wastwater. Wasdale and Eskdale are enchanting, and Wasdale not only has England's deepest lake, but also the highest mountain, Scafell Pike (pronounced scaw-full). Eskdale has the La'al Ratty minature railway to Ravenglass. It also has the start of the extreme Hardknott Pass to Langdale. 3:1 ascents and descents....
Lastly, there is only one "lake" in the Lake District ~ Bassenthwaite Lake, north of Keswick. The rest are either "meres" or "waters". The smaller ones are "tarns".
Cool video ❤
I recommend lakeside and coinstein
Great vlog of the Lake District guys! how did you get so many views? nice work
Thank you Ridhi for your kind words. We loved visiting! We saw that you recently got back from the Lake District and hope you enjoyed! We love your video too - amazing drone shots. They look so cinematic 😍
I’ve set myself a challenge this summer to see each and every lake in The Lake District. I managed to check Ennerdale Water off the list on Friday, but I’ve still yet to see Hawes Water, Lowes Water, Hayes Water and Devoke Water, plus I also need to actually set foot on the banks of Brothers Water and Bassenthwaite Lake, having only seen them out of a bus window en route to Glenridding and Cockermouth respectively.
What a great challenge to set yourself! You've still got a fair few on your list - let us know which one you like best :)
@@ToucanTravellers As a matter of fact, I’m reading this comment whilst taking a brief pitstop in Drigg en route back to Ravenglass Station from Wast Water, and I’ve got to say, that has been one of my favourite lakes so far.
Haweswater isn't technically a Lake. It's a man made reservoir, built in the 1930's and early 40's to provide Manchester with drinking water..... The drowned village of Mardale lies in the bottom, and is occasionally revealed if the water levels drop enough in times of hotter weather.....
nice video guys! i visit the lakes a couple of times a year, I see you have a drone, I`ll be taking mine the next time I go, grassmere and ulswater look good for photography, usually i spend my time in windermere, kendal
Thanks Stu! Yes, definitely take your drone with you - it's well worth it! Hope you have a good visit! 😊
Be very careful flying a drone in the Lake District, as the RAF and US Air Force use the area for low flying training, and they can appear without warning. Also be aware that the National Trust do not allow the flying of model aircraft or drones from their land - which extends to 4000+ acres of the Lake District.....
The flying of model aircraft and drones is prohibited by the National Trust over land they own and manage......
I'm literally in the lakes rn
Pooley Bridge has a steamer boat that runs to Glenridding and Aria Force
i think it’ll be great if you went there during winter!
Hi, we going to the Lake District this Friday for 3 nights also from north Wales. Just wondering if any of the walks are pram friendly? Thanks
Hi Tessa, thanks for your message. Most of the places listed in our video are pram-friendly, especially the likes of Grasmere, but usually any woodland walk is going to be pretty challenging with a pram. This is a good article that includes good walks in The Lake District that you may find helpful: familytraveller.com/holiday-destinations/uk/england/lake-district/buggy-walks-in-the-lake-district/ Hope you have a lovely time away :)
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where did you guys have that fish and chips in ullswater? thats looks so yummy i need it
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What on earth did they replace the old bridge with at Poolybridge?
district and is very beautiful and some places nearby and is a lot of things you will never get the
I’m in the Langdales right now for a few days
Hope you have a lovely time! :)
A comment on the local people would be helpful. They really are a friendly lot I think.
Somebody recently left a Tripadvisor review of the Lake District recently, complaining that there were "too many" Lakes..... I wonder who forced the reviewer to see them all?
As someone who was born and has lived in the Lakes all their life, I tend to head over to North Yorkshire when I want to get away from the crowds. I like the fact that North Yorkshire is *nowhere* nearly as commercialised as the Lake District is. Oh, and Grasmere is a *village* not a town......and it's not Grasmere Lake, it's Rydal Water.
There are quite a number of inaccuracies but they ARE right about the lakes.....Grassmere is south of the village, Rydal Water is the next lake down.
@@carlmarsden2529 Just the one S in Grasmere...😉😉
This is the First video In which i can see some details about the Lake District…
We hope you found it useful Amit :)
Windermere is the Blackpool of the lakes
Ha ha hardly... Windermere doesn't high a hight crime and drug abuse crime rate unlike Blackpool.. Unfair really.
We stayed on the outskirts of Ambleside by Windermere last year and it was so busy with day trippers at the weekends it might as well have been Blackpool. On the Monday though everything went back to normal - thank goodness. Back there again in a couple of weeks and I don’t think this year it will be any quieter? Who cares - it’s still The Lakes. Enjoyed the travelogue and your take on things to see and do.
I did like the video but it’d be cool if you included the names written out in the video so we can see how specific places are pronounced 😊
Are there public buses going around? Because i dont have car to drive around lake district
Hi there, yes, there are public buses for you to catch. You can check the local bus timetables to find out how often they run 😊
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What is the best airport to get close to the Lake District (for the US)
Manchester Airport is probably the best. It has flights to many US cities and the drive from Manchester to the Lake District is only 1hr30mins. Hope that helps 😊
You didn't go to Coniston where there is history there about Donald Campbell and a lovely village and lake WHY NOT ??
Castlerigg stone circle is the finest stone circle on earth, IMO
I take it you've not visited Stonehenge?
Any hotels around ?
Hi there! Lake District is home to many hotels and B&B's. Your best bet is to have a look on Tripadvisor for hotel reviews. We stayed in a hot tub lodge when we visited, but there's plenty of other options :) Let us know if you need any advice at all.
Which month did you guys visit lake District?
Hey Rajesh, we visited mid-April :)
few sights and things to do in my most recent upload :) ua-cam.com/video/8-I9E9r6uq0/v-deo.html
Lovely video, I'm from this area. One little thing. L like your filming but could you speak a bit slower
Thank you Noreen. We'll take the comment on board for future :) Thank you
One of the best coverage I've seen on the lake district 🤩👌🏻 you just need to work on the quality of the sounds..
Only 4days we had 6
you went everywhere but the mountains in lake district lol
Haha, yes we did all the walking but on flat ground! We merely visited to see the areas not the mountains (even though it's the reason why a lot of people visit) hope you enjoyed it none-the-less! :)
Visit Penrith next time, away from the mass tourism.
We'll add it to our list, thanks for the reco :)
YOU FORGOT CONISTON
Do you know that Windermere Lake as you say is Not a Lake it is a Mere just look on a map. There are Meres and Waters and only one Lake do you know which one is a Lake clue it starts with a B.
You do know that Mere actually means Lake or pond
@@wiganfan3373 I take it that you from Wigan what do you call Martin Mere, Martin Lake?
I'm from the Lake District, Born n bred, The End
@@wiganfan3373 Only one body of water, Bassenthwaite Lake, is traditionally named a lake.Larger bodies of water in the Lake District are generally named as mere or water, whilst smaller ones are denoted by tarn. Some writers, particularly in the media, refer to Lake Windermere though this use is deprecated. As for Born n bred I look out my window over one of the Waters from my family's long lived in old farm are yam.
@@aoliver3528 I really do not care, The fact of the matter is Mere means Lake, The End
I would advise people to steer well clear of the popular Lake District tourist hot spots because they are now attracting the louts who once frequented the likes of Blackpool. Crime is soaring but, the reporting of that crime is being suppressed by the local media.
Great video, …except for the annoying music.
Have read online that privatized water companies are dumping their waste into it so not sure its safe to visit might want to avoid swimming in it or breathing in the fresh stink air .
You shouldn’t believe all the rubbish that you can read online, water companies take water out from some of the lakes and they have to ensure its purity. Powered Boats are banned in these lakes for this reason. Why would they dump waste, (what waste, you don’t need anything but a pipeline?) into their source? It makes no sense for them to pollute their own supplies either business wise or for ecological purposes. Swimming is banned in some of the lakes that are used for water, mainly because it’s dangerous, the water is extracted,treated and filtered like all water in the UK, it has to be because of natural pollutants such as dead animals.
No water companies are pumping waste into any lakes near here. Try not to believe everything you read online..... The nearest to have traces of waste is Windermere. You really shouldn't drink water anyway, because fish p*ss in it.
Stone circles…Stop it! 😂😂😂