Buttermere

Buttermere village 0.5 miles.

High and low level walks straight from the doorstep. Ordnance Survey OL4.

Ghyll scrambling up Scale Force and Hassness Ghyll.

Rock climbing in Burtness Combe, allow 2 hours for the walk in. Roadside crags in Borrowdale are only 30 minutes away by car.

Rowing boat hire from Hassness for Buttermere or Wood House for Crummock Water.

Honister mine tours and via ferrata (4 miles) www.honister.com

Whinlatter Forest Park (8 miles). Mountain bike trails, and forest walks of various lengths. 

Jennings Brewery tours, Cockermouth (9miles) www.jenningsbrewery.co.uk

Wordsworth House, Cockermouth.

Lakeland Sheep & Wool Centre, Cockermouth www.sheep-woolcentre.co.uk

Trotters World of Animals, Bassenthwaite www.trottersworld.com

The Lake District Coast Aquarium, Maryport www.lakedistrict-coastaquarium.co.uk