GRIZEDALE FOREST PARK

 

Free Admission

 

 Hawkshead , Cumbria, LA22 0QJ

 Grizedale Visitor Centre

Grizedale Forest Park provides a fantastic full day out for the whole family. Grizedale Visitor Centre is at the heart of the Forest Park and is a great starting place for your visit.

 Grizedale Forest Park enterance

Grizedale Forest Park offers a fantastic day out for the whole family. The park occupies a central location within the Lake District National Park within an area of spectacular scenery.

 Bogle Crag

Midway between the Visitor Centre and the village of Satterthwaite, the car park at Bogle Crag is the starting point for 3 cicular walks which start and finish in ancient broadleaf woodland.

 Moor Top

Moor Top car park has views to west and south and is the start for a number of trails.

 Machell's Coppice

A pleasent car park from which the circular Machell's Coppice Walk starts.

 Blind Lane

Blind Lane is a small quiet car park from which a circular walk takes in the spectacular sight of Force Falls.

 Hill Top

Delightful small 17th-century house where Beatrix Potter wrote many of her famous children's stories

 HAWKSHEAD

 Beatrix Potter Gallery

Gallery showing original book illustrations by Beatrix Potter, with information about her life

 Hawkshead and Claife

Classic Lakeland village

 CONISTON

 World of Beatrix Potter

 BOWNESS

 Stott Park Bobbin Mill

This extensive working mill was begun in 1835 to produce the wooden bobbins vital to the Lancashire spinning and weaving industries.

 Fell Foot Park

Country park beside Lake Windermere

 WINDERMERE

 Stagshaw Garden

Steep woodland garden, noted for its flowering shrubs

 Windermere Lake Cruises

Winner of the 2003 Cumbria for Excellence Award, Large Tourist Attraction of the year. Over 1 million passengers carried each year

 Ambleside Roman Fort

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

 WATERHEAD