Located on Station Road on the north side of the River Greta, Keswick Museum and Art Gallery includes a fascinating, often weird
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One stormy day in Borrowdale in the sixteenth century, the river came flooding down the valley, trees were uprooted and the messy
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Overlooking the choppy waters of the Solway Firth, Senhouse Roman Museum contains artefacts unearthed from the adjoining Roman fort of Alauna. The
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The Beacon Museum tells the story of Whitehaven in a lively, engaging way. As well as being able to view historic artefacts,
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The history of the rum trade is told in this museum housed in the eighteenth-century cellars, offices and bonded warehouse of the
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The Armitt museum, gallery and reference library was established in Ambleside in 1912 to “foster an exchange of ideas in the local
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The Lakeland Motor Museum is a great big barn of the place, filled to the rafters with items telling the story of
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The children’s writer Beatrix Potter purchased Hill Top in Near Sawrey in 1905, the first of many farms that she bought in
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Telling the story of England’s largest lake, the Windermere Jetty is also known as the ‘Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories’. Opened
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Style and simple elegance are the watchwords at Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts house, about a mile south of Bowness-on-Windermere. Couple this
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