Carlisle

Carlisle

Carlisle is an area with a wealth of historic attractions; you can join heritage trails that will submerse you in the areas history. There are also plenty of fun attractions if you after a more casual visit including climbing walls, miniature model museums and nature reserves.

But of course on Carlisle's doorstep is the majesty of the Lake District, a compact glaciated upland landscape of radiating U-shaped valleys, many containing long narrow lakes. Rocky mountain tops, open fell pasture and heather-covered slopes contrast with native woodland, exotic plantations and stone-walled fields in the valley bottoms. The resulting landscape has aesthetic unity marked by contrast in detail: mountains, moors, lakes, woods, streams, fields, stone walls, farms, villages and small scale industry, reflecting its relative geographical isolation and gradual development.

Countless adventurous activity providers are based or are active in the Lake District, with mountaineering, orienteering, fell walking, canoeing, climbing, abseiling, open-water swimming and of course the opportunity to camp or bed-down in a boarding house providing fantastic exercise, outdoor adventure and leadership opportunities for students from across the UK.

Not only is the Lake District beautiful and adventurous in itself, but it has also proved an inspiration to artists and writers such as Beatrix Potter and William Wordsworth over the centuries.

Venues in this location

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King Arthur's Round Table

A Neolithic earthwork henge, one of many in this area, dating from about 2000 BC, but much later believed to be King Arthur's jousting arena. Mayburgh Henge is nearby.

West Lakes Adventure

Based in the Eskdale Valley at the heart of the Western Lake District with easy access to Wastwater and Scafell Pike, we really could not be better place to provide a wide range of outdoor activities.

Calvert Trust

Challenging Disability Through Outdoor Adventure

Founded in 1978, Calvert Trust is the inspiration of John Fryer-Spedding, whose vision was to enable people with disabilities to benefit from outdoor activities in the countryside.

Cumbria Archive Service

Curious to find out more about your family history? Your house? Your town or village? Your industrial history? 

Shap Abbey

The impressive full-height 15th-century tower and other remains of a remote abbey of Premonstratensian 'white canons'.

Shap Abbey is in a remote valley that was once home to a community of Premonstratensian canons. Living a contemplative monastic life, these canons also served as priests in nearby parishes.

Carlisle Cathedral

The educational work of the Cathedral is seen as an important and developing area with a great deal to offer. Over the past few years we have welcomed numerous groups of young people from all over Cumbria, together with others from many parts of Britain and abroad.

Maryport Maritime Museum

Maryport Maritime Museum is ideally situated at the quayside in the beautiful and historic town of Maryport.

The museum occupies the building formally known as The Queen's Head public house which entertained and boarded a great many sailors between their voyages on the high seas.

Borrowdale and Derwentwater

Spectacular and varied lakeland landscape around Derwentwater

Derwentwater is often called the 'Queen of the Lakes', and as you canoe between the islands with your picnic at the ready it's easy to see why. The friendly staff at our shop and information centre on the Keswick Foreshore will help you out with local knowledge about canoeing, interesting things to see and walks to do.

Buttermere Valley

Tranquil area of dramatic fells, farms and woodland, encompassing three lakes

Buttermere in Old English means 'the lake by the dairy pastures'. Large numbers of Vikings settled in Cumbria during the 9th and 10th centuries and many names in the area are of Norse origin.

Ennerdale

Home of the Wild Ennerdale project with 30 miles of traffic-free paths

Lying on the north western edge of the Lake District National Park, Ennerdale is home to some of England’s most vibrant natural environments and one of the longest running wild land restoration projects in the UK.

Eskdale and Duddon Valley

Valleys of many delights

The valleys descend from the highest and wildest mountains all the way to the beautiful sandy beaches on Cumbria’s peaceful western coast. The landscape provides everything from grandeur and beauty to tranquillity and remoteness.

Wordsworth's House

Step back to the 1770s at poet William Wordsworth’s childhood home

Wordsworth House and Garden, in the Cumbrian town of Cockermouth, is the birthplace and childhood home of romantic poet William and his sister Dorothy.

It is presented as it would have been when they lived here with their parents, three brothers and servants in the 1770s.

Wetheral Priory Gatehouse

Well-preserved 15th-century gatehouse, the sole survivor of a small Benedictine priory. A miniature 'pele-tower' containing two storeys of comfortable rooms, it later became a fortified vicarage, a defence against border raiders.

Clifton Hall

This 15th-century tower, sole surviving part of the manor house of the Wybergh family, was plundered by Jacobites in 1745 before the Battle of Clifton Moor, the last battle fought on English soil.

Ambleside Roman Fort

The well-marked remains of a 2nd-century fort with large granaries, probably built under Hadrian's rule to guard the Roman road from Brougham to Ravenglass and act as a supply base.

Covering three acres, the fort was probably built during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian (AD 117–38).

Carlisle Castle

Carlisle Castle includes an exhibition, a programme of guided tours, a picnic area, a unique gift shop and is in close proximity to Hadrian's Wall.

Honister Slate Mine

Keld Chapel

Remote medieval chapel

This picturesque and rustic stone chapel is thought to have been the chantry for Shap Abbey originally. It was built around the sixteenth-century and has been used as a cottage and meeting house during its long history.

The key to open the chapel door is hanging by the front door of the house opposite.

Outward Bound Eskdale

Gate House was built in 1896 as a country retreat and converted into an Outward Bound centre in 1950. With 60 acres of landscaped grounds, stunning views of some of the highest summits in England and the picturesque village of Eskdale Green just down the road it's an ideal venue for our development courses.

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