Keswick is at the heart of the Lake District, with mountains to climb, lakes to explore and scores of attractions. Here is a small selection near at hand:

• Lake Derwentwater, with launches, canoes, sailing dinghies and windsurfers for hire.
• Paragliding fundays or tandem flights
• The Theatre of the Lakes and Keswick Cinema
• 'Cars of the Stars' museum '
• Mirehouse', country house where Tennyson wrote the Morte d'Arthur
• 'Trotters and friends' pets farm
• Cycle and tandem hire
• Keswick climbing wall
• Keswick pencil museum - where it all began
• Quad biking and karting at Rookin House
• Riding at Armathwaite Hall
• Hundreds of walks
• Every kind of outdoor shop
• Dozens of pubs and restaurants serving good value meals