Visiting Cumbria

This section contains everything you need to make the most of your visit to the Lake District.

From hotels and outdoor activity centres to great restaurants and sights not to be missed, find all you need to know to plan a trip to remember and to make the most of Cumbria's outstanding natural beauty here.

Special features

	Map Pack Planning on taking to the fells during your visit? ... more				Where to stay From luxury hotels to camping sites ... more
	What's on Whether you're looking for cinema listings, food festivals or local art ... more				Getting here Whether you plan to get here by road, rail, bus or plane ... more

Cumbria Life magazine

The perfect gift for family and friends!

A subscription to Cumbria Life makes a wonderful present and is a great way to keep your family and friends in touch with Cumbria (or why not treat yourself?) ... more

News headlines

‘We must commit toa new war – on poverty and hunger’
The Cumberland News 30/12/2008 13:04:18
As I walked from my favourite rundown Paris hotel to the Gare du Nord I was stopped by a rather dumpy American couple, all-too-obviously tourists, who asked me in a Midwest drawl if I could ‘take a snap of them outside the rail station’.

New sleeping disorder service to be developed
Whitehaven News 28/11/2008 09:32:32
A NEW service to help people with severe sleeping disorders could be developed.

Tools stolen in raid
News & Star 02/04/2008 11:01:29
RAIDERS smashed their way into a house that is being renovated in Buchanan Road, Currock, Carlisle, on Tuesday and stole tools worth £90. The burglary happened during the afternoon.

OUR SHIP COMES IN
Evening Mail 20/05/2008 09:15:15
A NEW era of surface shipbuilding in Barrow moved a step closer today when the government gave its commitment to build two aircraft carriers.

7 January 2009

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