Tourist attractions Kendal

This 16km-long lake, equally popular with sailors and water skiers, is pleasantly surrounded by woods and hills. Boat trips round the lake enable visitors to admire the unspoilt west bank, as well as the manly islets, including Belle Isle. The town o..

In this northern region of England, the aquarium displays the very rich aquatic life in the lakes and rivers of the Lake District.

Levens Hall is an Elizabethan stately home with a 13C tower. The great hall , with its oak panelling and decorated ceiling, give a foretaste of the engravings and stuccoes in the other rooms. There are some fine Charles II walnut chairs in the din..

Abbot Hall, an 18C country house, is now occupied by an art gallery with a permanent exhibition of paintings by portraitist George Romney (1734-1802), as well as temporary exhibitions. Another section is dedicated to the writer Arthur Ransome.

The well-run Lake District Visitor Centre has exhibitions on the region's ecology and history, as well as an exhibition devoted to Beatrix Potter.

That the English love boats is an established fact. It is not surprising to find a museum dedicated to this form of transport on the shores of one of England's largest lakes. The Windermere Steamboat Museum, on the banks of Lake Windermere (1 km nort..

This is the kingdom of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck and the retreat of Beatrix Potter (who considered herself as primarily a sheep-rearer and was embarrassed by the success of her children's books). This house has not changed sinc..

The priory is the largest medieval building (12C) in the Lake District. It escaped the destructions of the Dissolution by becoming a parish church. Its unusual tower is in fact made of two towers diagonally placed on top of each other. Inside, a fine..