Keswick
Keswick is the northern tourist hub of the Lake District National Park and is a favourite base for serious walkers and climbers, artists and photographers, and anyone who enjoys mountain and lake scenery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Derwent Pencil Museum and Walla Crag.
Derwent Pencil Museum
Museum
Photo: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Derwent Pencil Museum is a museum dedicated to the manufacturing and history of pencils, located in Keswick, in the north-west of England.
Walla Crag
Peak
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Walla Crag is a fell in the English Lake District, near Keswick. The fell is a short walk from Keswick and overlooks Derwentwater.
Theatre by the Lake
Theater building
Photo: Phil Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Theatre by the Lake is situated on the shores of Derwentwater in the Lake District in Keswick, Cumbria, England. It opened in 1999, replacing the mobile Century Theatre, and was made possible by an Arts Council Lottery Fund Grant.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castlerigg stone circle and Portinscale.
Castlerigg stone circle
Locality
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castlerigg Stone Circle is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the Lake District National Park, North West England. It is one of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from approximately 3200 BC to 2500 BC, during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages.
Portinscale
Village
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portinscale is a village in Cumbria, England, close to the western shore of Derwentwater in the Lake District National Park 1+1⁄2 miles from Keswick. For administrative purposes, Portinscale lies within the civil parish of Above Derwent, the unitary authority of Cumberland, and the ceremonial county of Cumbria.
Keswick
- Type: Locality
- Location: Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.5993° or 54° 35′ 57″ northLongitude
-3.1348° or 3° 8′ 5″ westElevation
315 feet (96 metres)Open location code
9C6RHVX8+P3GeoNames ID
7296390
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