English Lake District Holiday inspiration

FREE World Cup iPhone App

Great New FREE World Cup Twitter App allows you to easily join the world wide conversation from your iPhone. Enjoy following the tweets for your favourite teams, track every tweet relating to any World Cup match with amazing live twitter streams. This is the only Twitter Client designed just for football fans and is exclusie to the iPhone platform.

special offers and late deals in The Lake District

Special Offers in The Lakes District have suddenly become a lot easier to find now that The Lake District Late Availability is doing all the hard work for you.

Keep updated with activity on the site via Twitter and facebook too!

Special Offers The Lake District

Interactive Guide - Keswick, the Lake District

This interactive map is really useful if you are making a first trip to the English Lake District. It covers the North part of the Lake District.

The ButtermereWeb- Information and Inspiration for the Buttermere area

Weather forecast for the Buttermere Valley and surrounding mountains including Buttermere Webcam.

lowther driving trials

The Annual Lowther Horse Driving Trials and Country Fair are a real higlight in Cumbrias calender. Set in the grounds of the Lowther Estate, experience the thrills and spills of the exciting equeestrian events or absorb the wonderful country atmosphere in the surrounding festival featuring show jumping, gun dogs, Sheep demostrations, over 400 retail stalls, rural crafts and celebrity chef demostrations.

BBC NEWS | England | Cumbria | Lakes' info centres face closure

BBC NEWS | England | Cumbria | Lakes' info centres face closure: "Lakes' info centres face closure Lake District Millions of visitors flock to the Lake District every year Job losses and tourist information centre closures are likely as the Lake District National Park Authority struggles to combat a cash crisis. The authority, along with other national parks, has been told its government grant is to be frozen."

Lake District information centres may close unless rescue plan can be achieved

BBC NEWS | England | Cumbria | Rescue package for info centres: "Rescue package for info centres Lake District Millions of visitors flock to the Lake District every year A potential rescue plan for Cumbria's tourist information centres threatened with closure has been unveiled. Cumbria Tourist Board is bidding to set up a separate organisation - Infoco - to help visitors with information. There are 33 TICs in the county run by 13 different organisations at a total cost of around £1.7m a year. The Lake District National Park Authority intends to close six centres, while South Lakeland District Council is reviewing its seven centres."

Wintery conditions in the Lake District

The Lakes District frozen solid, coming off Dollywagon Pike during the recent cold snap over xmas. The coldest day I have seen in the Lakes for years, impressive icy scenes!

Atmospheric lighting over a cold Borrowdale over Christmas.

Group of friendly Lake District sheep in a barn at Watendlath

Plans unveiled for Lakes whisky based in Staveley Wood yard

Andrew Currie has unveiled plans to begin producing a single malt whisky in the Lake District at Staveley, between Windermere and Kendal. He plans to use the pure water of the River Kent, fed from high mountain catchement areas, to make a unique high quality single malt whisky.