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This eBook offering is an excerpt of Lonely Planet's latest The Lake District guide book and includes:
• Windermere & Around chapter
• Lake District History, Culture & Environment and Directory, Transport & Health
• Windermere & Around maps
Tracing a shimmering 10.5-mile curve from Newby Bridge to Ambleside's Waterhead jetties, hemmed in by copses, fields and whale-back fells, Windermere is England's largest and most-visited lake. Grab your hiking boots, your camera and this chapter, and succumb to the scenery!
This guide is the result of research by dedicated authors and local experts who immersed themselves in Windermere & Around, finding unique experiences, and sharing practical and honest advice, so you come away informed and amazed. This guide includes up-to-date reviews of the best places to stay, eat, sights, cultural information, maps, transport tips and a few best kept secrets – all the essentials to get to the heart of Windermere & Around.
Coverage includes:
• History, Culture, Literary Lakes, Food & Drink, Environment, Directory, Transport and Health
• Windermere Town & Bowness-on-Windermere, Around Windermere & Bowness, Ambleside, Blackwell House, Lakeside, Newby Bridge & the Southern Shore, Lyth & Winster Valleys, Staveley, Kentmere Valley, Troutbeck.
Lonely Planet's The Lake District guide is researched and written by Oliver Berry