English Heritage & National Trust places in Cumbria

The low stone walls of a Hadrianic fort at the head of Windermere, with its headquarters, granaries and a strongroom to step into.

Border fortress with a medieval keep, Tudor defences and Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life.

A Neolithic circle of 38 stones in an open field above Keswick, framed by the Lake District fells.

A Neolithic bank and ditch beside Eamont Bridge, later linked with Arthurian legend.

Two roadside Roman turrets west of Birdoswald, linked by the wider Hadrian's Wall walking landscape.

A substantial prehistoric enclosure built from river pebbles, with one standing stone remaining.

An island fortress built by the Abbot of Furness, reached by passenger ferry from Roa Island.

The remains of a Roman signal tower that predates Hadrian's Wall, with wide views above Banks.

A well-preserved Hadrian's Wall milecastle with barracks, an oven and surviving rampart stairs.

Walls nearly four metres high survive from the bath house outside Ravenglass Roman Fort.

A long surviving stretch of Hadrian's Wall with turrets and Roman bridge remains beside the River Irthing.

Gallery of Beatrix Potter's original illustrations in her husband's former Hawkshead office.

A giant 2,000-tonne balanced boulder in Borrowdale with a ladder to the top.

A 14th-century monastic gatehouse in Cartmel village, once a school and courthouse.

A 17th-century temperance inn near Sedbergh, at the foot of Cautley Spout waterfall.

Italianate villa on a wooded island in Derwentwater, open to visitors just five days per year.

A celebrated walkers' inn at the head of Great Langdale, beneath the Langdale Pikes.

The Trust's straw-bale education centre on the St Catherine's parkland above Windermere, used for pre-booked woodwork and bushcraft courses, with public footpaths through the estate woods.