8 National Trust places to visit in Cumbria, including 5 historic sites, 1 countryside, 1 castle. Tick them off your checklist as you go, or see them on the National Trust map.
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.
Border fortress with a medieval keep, Tudor defences and Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life.
A 14th-century monastic gatehouse in Cartmel village, once a school and courthouse.
A Neolithic circle of 38 stones in an open field above Keswick, framed by the Lake District fells.
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.