Hints and Tips Blog (Art & Culture) - Visit Lake District

It’s the spookiest time of the year where ghosts and ghouls come out to play. The sight of a witch flying across the moonlit sky on a broomstick cackling all the way as zombies rise from gravestones to stretch their legs.

Cumbria is particularly spooky at Halloween because of our many medieval castles and stately homes – all favourite haunts of those who haunt.

Keswick is one of the most beautiful towns in the country, and even more stunning in autumn as the trees turn golden with the turning of the season. Keswick Museum is an easy walk from the town centre. Read on for our top ten reasons to visit this autumn.

It’s ‘Love Culture Week’, running across seven days from Monday 17 August, and we’d love you to get involved and make the most of our world-class cultural offering: from stunning museums and galleries, to an array of heritage sites and a blend of unique cultural attractions waiting for you to rediscover.

It’s 250 years since the birth of William Wordsworth, and yet his works and philosophies are just as relevant today. Wordsworth and his fellow Romantic poets paved the way for subsequent generations to think about – and value – the world around them in a new way.