The Lake District

If you fancy a bit of lone wandering, you could do worse than taking Wordsworth’s advice (his favourite spot in the Lake District was the Duddon Valley) and doing it in North West England’s Lake District, with it’s calm lakes surrounded by gracefully sloping hills—smoothened by centuries of glacial movement. Rocky peaks, with plains of heather on the incline, woods below the tree line, and flowering meadows around the shores of the glassy lakes; have been attracting scenery lovers here for hundreds of years. The higher part of the Lake District is now a national park, which also includes England’s tallest peak—Scarfell.