England's Magnificent Lake District Is it as Good as they say? 󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Had to say that the Lake district is my favourite place on Earth...Although its closely followed by the Norfolk Broads...Cups of tea and bacon sandwiches on a boat on the peaceful Norfolk Broads are my heaven alongside Ambleside walks in the Lake District.

How this isn't a staple for British/Can/Aus/NZ/USA is beyond me...Skip London its just not British anymore.

I recommend south coast, especially Eastbourne. I have never visited Lake District yet but looking forward to it.

Well done Anna, you closed the fence behind you. A lot of tourists forget. Freedom to roam comes with responsibility. However do we need to know what you had for lunch?

Lake side houses are millions £5mill for good ones in a good area but can go much higher 😅

Being the lake District it has more than one, it has 16 in that area!

If you like history you could go see thr roman wall.

God’s own country.
I have a static caravan there I absolutely love the place.

"water" in the name of a lake derives from the old Norse name of 'vatr' meaning 'lake', so don't listen to the old line of "There is only one lake in the lake district (Bassenthwaite Lake,) - There are numerous lakes in the English Lake district, the major ones and hundreds of minor lakes (tarns and pots) but they're all lakes - Bassenthwaite is just the only one that contains the word 'Lake' in its name.

My favourite place in the world, going up again in a couple of weeks.

Your making out there is only one lake saying you made your way to the lake. There are a dozen lakes or more in the lake district. You don't even say which lake you're at until a way into your video. It's a knife and fork as well and we don't have fizzy beer and you get a full pint unlike in America where you only get half measures. You would never get that here because they fill the glass then let it settle then fill it to the top. It's Bow as in shoot a bow ness

Wast Water in Wasdale Valley is stunning.. but would recommend take the hardknott pass route.. views are just incredible 😍

When I moved to England years ago I was in awe of London...the buildings, history and people. I still love visiting now.
But the English Lake District is staggeringly beautiful! I'm lucky enough to live there now. The seasons are so different and bring a different view wherever you look each day. Very different to London :) x

Can I recommend the border between Wales and England? Visit Ludlow, Whittington Castle, Shrewsbury and a lovely castle near Hereford known as Hampton Court castle and gardens. Well worth the trip I think.

come to newcastle then make your way up the northumberland coast

Hope you enjoy your trip. Best wishes son the next.

I'm from the North West of England and only about 1.5 hours away from The Lake District and it is one of the most beautiful areas in England, the only places I think that can rival it is Devon & Cornwall. If you're looking a bit further afield and talking about the whole of the UK the Welsh coastline along the Cambrian coast is stunning and if you get good weather you can't go far wrong with the Scottish Highlands for scenery.

My favourite place, I love the Lake District. So glad you guys enjoyed it, it’s absolutely beautiful, in any season, but obviously Summer time is best.

Theres 16 or so lakes in the lake district😊😊

Grassmere is the birth place of our great poet William Wordsworth. I think his grave is in the church yard there. Lovely village. Property is expensive as its a national park.

Grasmere is famous for William Wordsworths and Gingerbread. I'm so glad you tried it. I love it. I am hoping you will try Rum Butter. It's best on toast and very local it was created due to smuggling. Sticky Toffee Pudding was created in Cartmel and is probably the best pudding in the UK.
HAWKSHEAD is a small village in the Lakes, its close to Beatrix Potter sights and has great pubs for lunch (perfect in the winter with open fires and filling food. The last time I was at Windermere I saw 2 Spitfires (iconic WW2 fighter planes) fly down the mere and bank right in front of me, AMAZING.

As an aged englishman, i've never seen ginger bread like that, either. Glad ya got some good weather, the Lake District is reckoned to be the wettest place in all England. ( Also one of the most expensive, outside London. ) PS The Yorkshire Dales is another spot that's up there. Well worth a " butchers hook". ( Rhyming slang for look ! )

The lakes are THE most beautiful place in the world, not just the UK, Grizedale forest is a must.

Beautifully filmed! I’m a Cumbrian lass living in Yorkshire and super excited to be gan back yam (going back home) soon! Wainwright was a well loved, famous local fell walker. He still holds a place in the hearts of Cumbrians. Also famous for his Wainwright Walks guide books. His favourite fell was Haystacks, towering over Crummock Water and Buttermere. His ashes were scattered over Innominate Tarn. A small body of water on the way up to the summit. I once had the privilege of climbing with him when I was a young girl. Hope you found time to just relax and soak in the beauty. 😊

The Windermere, Ambleside, grasmere area is really pretty but can become a bit of a Lake District theme park in my experience, especially in high season. If you ever go again try going over to the west side where everything gets a lot more rugged and real, but just as beautiful - with the benefit of it being harder to get to so you don’t end up with the massive queues of traffic and people.

I live so close to the lake district but don't visit nearly enough. It's a fantastic part of the country. Become a member of the YHA, and staying there for a few nights is so cheap. You get to meet so many interesting people too.

We are lucky enough to consider the Lake District as our cheap and quick holiday and have been visiting since I was a child. It's amazing when you have the good weather.

As I'm sure you already figured out on your first day, you need a lot more time to actually explore. Good to see someone get outside of London (I've only ever been to London once to visit lol)

London is the least British place in Britain. I avoid it like the plague. Visit the Highlands and Trossachs in Scotland. I'm English and can tell you it's the most beautiful place in the whole world.

You guys would love Keswick in the north Lake District x

Loved watching your video. I love the Lake District. When I was a kid (70s/80s), our family had a caravan on Derwentwater Caravan Site in Keswick❤

American has way better scenery than any English scenery especially YELLOW STONE PARK that should be named as the 9th wonder of the world it's s absolutely stunningly beautiful 👍 I'm a BRIT BTW and this is just a couple of lakes on a hill..😂😂😂

Yep its so green in the UK why?? Its called RAIN😂

The cost of living in the UK is relative... if you're talking about England, the north is cheaper than the south, unless you live in certain places (the Lakes, the golden triangle near Manchester, etc).

So glad you used the correct flag on the thumbnail, the cross of St George.

The lake district is the jewel in the crown of England nowhere comes close

The Lake District has always been one my favorite place in England. I spent a great deal of weekends there back in the 80's & 90's camping and climbing the fells where you get fantastic views of the surrounding country, unless of course the tops are covered in cloud, which unfortunately is often, when you get a great view of the 20 or so feet around you.

The beer you drank is named after Alfred Wainwright who wrote definitive guides to walking the fells of the Lake District, though an OS map is, in my view, a necessity I would not be without one of Wainwrights books, full of detailed hand drawings pointing out all the little things on the routes, stiles, brooks, notable trees, sheepfolds etc with his often humorous thoughts and notes on the places passed on the way to the tops. It was always a pleasure to sit and read up on the next planned walk while enjoying a well deserved pint at some pub at the foot of the hills just climbed.

Looks like you had a great trip. There's a reason there are so many lakes, streams and greenery-it rains, a lot. You were lucky with the weather.

Are you sure you were in England/Britain? I coulda' sworn I saw blue Sky during your travels....😁
QUOTE.....The sausage has strong links with Cumbria and was first documented in the ““Reliable Guide to the curing of Cumberland Hams and Bacon and the Preparation of the offal in the Cumberland Style” published in 1911, although local folklore suggests that the sausage was originally introduced with the influx of German Miners many many years ago ..UNQUOTE.

100% you need to visit Wast Water in Wasdale Valley. It got voted " Britain's Best View " and youll see why when you get there !! " the route to take is "Hardknott Pass" . You'll drive through the Cumbrians Mountains ! To say the least its a challenging drive but well worth it !

Go further afield even within the Lake District. The Lake District is my favourite area, but sadly it's a few years since I was last there as I now live a bit farther away than I used to. Back in the 70's I even went canoeing on Lake Windermere, and I walked from Rydal Water to Ambleside to Derwent Water. Also walked around parts of Wast Water and up Great Gable, sadly too foggy to see much. Other areas I can no longer remember the names of. The Horseshoe????? The Drunken Gosling pub near Hawkshead!

That road you walked back on is known locally as millionaires row. It's had that name for at least 40 years so you can imagine the price of houses today.

Being based in Windermere, you really should have followed the route to Orrest Head from the road near the Railway Station, up to an incredible view of the lake and of the mountains beyond. It would really have taken your breath away. It was the first walk in the area taken by one 'Alfred Wainwright' and impressed him so much, that he committed the remainder of his life to mapping and catalogueing most of the walks to all of the beauty spots in the Lake District, opening up the Lakes, Tarns, Fells and Mountains of the area to all.

My wife LOVES Grasmere Gingerbread, and insists on visiting Grasmere whenever we're in the Lake District to purchase lots of it. I'm not too keen myself: It's OK, but rather than resembling a blend of 'cake and cookie' I always find it more resembles 'breadcrumbs atop a chewy bit atop what can only be descibed as a 'roofing tile'. 😉 The ginger flavour is excellent though!

If you'd have taken the Service 555 bus from Windermere, you could have travelled beyond Grasmere, up past Thirlmere and into Keswick on the northern side of Derwentwater, (but it would have take a fair bit more time, and you wouldn't be able to ride on the 'open top'.)

Cumberland Sausage is traditionally made with chopped or coarsely mince pork (rather than finely minced pork with most sausages.) It's flavoured with thyme, sage, pepper, nutmeg and cayenne (the last three reflecting Cumberland's historic sea-borne trade with the Americas.)
The sauce served with your Cumberland Sausage was probably 'Cumberland Sauce', (made with redcurrant jelly, mustard, pepper, blanched orange peel, and port wine.) It's often served in the region, usually to accompany cold meat, game, local lamb, or indeed Cumberland sausage, though serving with a sausage 'buttie' seems a little like overkill!

An interesting story: When the railways first came to the Lake District in the 1840s, the train was planned to terminate farther south at Bowness-on-Windermere, but the worthies of that town didn't want to spoil the peace and atmosphere by allowing trains to travel there, so the railway companies had to terminate their service at a small town named Birthwaite, which was a couple of miles north of Bowness, and about a mile from the lake itself. Still, they named their station: 'Windermere' and over time, there was so much influx of tourism via train into Birthwaite, and the local economy boomed because of it, that they changed their town name to match the Railway Station name: "Windermere"

The jurassic Coast in Dorset,is stunning,I think you'd love it there,Charmouth and Lyme Regis.

Homes around Windermere are super expensive, you can’t build new houses there due to planning so to buy a mansion house would set you back at LEAST a million pounds, homes that do come on the market are not priced generally, they go to closed bids to the highest bidder upwards of £5MILLION

Cumberland,Lincolnshire every county has it's own sausage, for that matter every Butcher makes their own recipes. Sage and onion,leek,chilli, cheeses,basil,thyme ANY recipe you can imagine.

Beer isnt carbonated. The brew makes the mild bubbles