Castlehead Wood

Places of Interest

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

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. In this period, the Lake District – a mountainous area in which Castlerigg is located – saw particularly high levels of Neolithic stone circle construction, with other similar examples including Swinside, Gamelands, Elva Plain, and Long Meg and Her Daughters.

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.

Applethwaite

Village

Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Applethwaite is a village in the foothills of Skiddaw near Keswick in the English Lake District. It is in the county of Cumbria, and forms part of the civil parish of Underskiddaw, which has a population of 282.

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