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Apart from the obvious attractions of the lakes and fells and the usual facilities for eating, drinking and shopping (including numerous specialist shops for walking, climbing and skiing equipment) Keswick has these facilities and attractions - The Theatre By The Lake on the shores of Derwentwater The Alhambra Cinema in St Johns Street. Keswick Spa - swimming pool with water slide and wave machine Keswick Museum and Art Gallery in Station Road has many interesting exhibits including the musical stones. (Apr-Oct) Keswick Pencil Museum (Pencils were invented in the Keswick area with the discovery of plumbago in Borrowdale) The Cars of the Stars Motor Museum Take a motor launch around Derwentwater (hourly service with seven stops) or hire a windsurfer, dingy, or kayak or cabin cruiser. More Keswick information at www.keswick.org |
Parish of St John's in the Vale, Castlerigg & WythburnParish Community, Events and Parish Council Researching the History of the Parish | |
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Past and present weather recorded by Keswick Schools Future weather - five day forecast Mountain weather information service - two day forecast |
Keswick Film Festival 10 - 13 Feb 2011 Words by the Water 4 - 13 March 2011 Keswick Jazz Festival 8 May - 11 May 2011 Keswick Mountain Festival Wed May 18th - Sun May 22nd 2011 Keswick Beer Festival Fri & Sat 3rd - 4th June 2011 Cockermouth Carnival TBA 2011 Keswick Christian Convention (three weeks from mid July) Cockermouth Agricultural Show early August TBA Thirlmere Flower Show First Saturday in August Grasmere Rushbearing Saturday nearest St Oswalds day (5th Aug) Bassenthwaite Regatta 1st week August Rydal Show mid August 2010 Grasmere Show (August Bank Holiday Sunday) Keswick Agricultural Show , normally held every August Bank Holiday Monday, will not take place this year. The next show will be in 2011
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Watch the Ospreys fishing in
Bassenthwaite Lake (April - August) Trotters world of animals, Bassenthwaite. A wildlife experience with demonstrations Honister slate mine. Tour underground at England's last working slate mine The Heaton Cooper Studio, Grasmere. An exhibition of paintings and sculpture by four generations of the Heaton Cooper Family Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere. Wordsworth's Birthplace in Cockermouth and his home at Rydal Mount are also open to the public. Hill Top, Near Sawrey. The 17th century farmhouse where Beatrix Potter bred herdwicks and wrote childrens stories. Now owned by the National Trust. The Rheged Centre on the A66 near Penrith. Seven giant movie screens, 'Discovering Cumbria' show, The National Mountaineering Exhibition. Off-road driving in South Lakeland |
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(under construction) Wordsworth's Lakeland origins are well known but the other Lakes Poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge* and Robert Southey also had strong connections with Keswick Hugh Walpole's 'Rogue Herries' was set in the picturesque hamlet of Watendlath. Several of the children's novels of Arthur Ransome were set on and around Coniston Water and Winderemere. However 'Swallows and Amazons' was filmed on Derwentwater. Ken Russell filmed parts of 'Tommy' on Walla Crag and parts of The 'Seven Veils' in the Naddle Valley.
* The young and exuberant STC was probably the first of the modern fell walkers. On one occasion he walked, alone and by moonlight, from his home at Greta Hall in Keswick to Threlkeld, up Clough Head and along the tops of the Helvellyn range to Wordsworth's house in Grasmere. And this was in the days (about 1805) when it fashionable to regard the 'frightful' mountains with awe and not to venture near them without a guide. |
Those of you without cars can come by rail to Penrith or Windermere. At Windermere Rail Station catch the 555 bus outside to Keswick Get off at the "Castle Lane Road End" stop and walk back down the hill. From Penrith Rail Station catch the X4/X5 bus outside towards Workington alighting at Keswick. The golakes website has an interactive map showing bus routes and trains - also long distance walks and cycle routes - but not timetables. Bus Timetables can be found here.
The 555
Lakeslink service passes the farm on its way from Lancaster
through Keswick to Carlisle . The "Dale Bottom"
stop is half a mile down the hill from Low Nest. The more
convenient "Castle Lane Road End" stop is a quarter
mile up the hill but is not listed on the timetable. The Mountain Goat company operates tours by mini-bus Derwentwater, Ullswater, Windermere and Coniston, all have motor launches with regular services Mountain Bikes can be hired in Keswick. Keswick is within walking distance of the farm (about 25 minutes). |
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Archaeology of the Naddle Valley and Castlerigg Stone Circle Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian Society |